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When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
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 noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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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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Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
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From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
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Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
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When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
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There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.
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Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
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One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.
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Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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T is the Divinity that stirs within us.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.
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Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.
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