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Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.
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Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.
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There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.
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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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The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.
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True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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My voice is still for war.
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Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
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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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Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
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