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Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.
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Poverty palls the most generous spirits it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.
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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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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
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Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.
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