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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.
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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.
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Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.
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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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Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.
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An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.
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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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Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.
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Poverty palls the most generous spirits it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human 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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
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The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.
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A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.
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Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
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For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.
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