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Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.
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For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.
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There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.
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Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?
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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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Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
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Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.
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Health and happiness give rise to each other.
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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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Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.
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Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.
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Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
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A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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