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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
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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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Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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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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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.
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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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If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put it in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of those who are much superior to them in strength, number, and interest.
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Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
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I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
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I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.
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It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
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