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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.
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When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
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