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My voice is still for war.

Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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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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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.
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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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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
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Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.
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