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Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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The time never lies heavy upon him it is impossible for him to be alone.
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The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
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In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.
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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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Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
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It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.
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Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
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The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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The spacious firmament on high, And all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.
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Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.
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Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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