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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant a marriage of interest, easy and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Love is a second life it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
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There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them and?there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost what I possessed is left to others what I gave away remains with me.'
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The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.
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