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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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By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.
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There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
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My voice is still for war.
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
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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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My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
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When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.
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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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Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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