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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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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
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Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
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Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
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We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.
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The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.
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A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.
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Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.
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Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.
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Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.
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