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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
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T is the Divinity that stirs within us.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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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An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.
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It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.
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The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.
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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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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
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Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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