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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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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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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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When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
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It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
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Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
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We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.
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That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.
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Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.
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Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
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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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In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.
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Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.
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There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
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