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A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.
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Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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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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Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.
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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
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One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.
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There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.
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A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
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With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.
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Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
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As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die.
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