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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
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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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If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
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Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.
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Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.
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A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.
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The spacious firmament on high, And all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.
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The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.
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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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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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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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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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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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