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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.
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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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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
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Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
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A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.
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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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The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.
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