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If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
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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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I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.
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Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.
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We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
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An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.
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I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.
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Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
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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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It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.
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If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
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It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others. We have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.
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Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.
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