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Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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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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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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Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.
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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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There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.
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An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
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There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost what I possessed is left to others what I gave away remains with me.'
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.
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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
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