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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
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Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.
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The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
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It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.
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There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
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He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
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Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.
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Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.
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Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.
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