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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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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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The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.
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What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
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We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
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