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Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
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A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.
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As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.
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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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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
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We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.
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When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
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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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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
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There is a great amity between designing and art.
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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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Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.
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Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.
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