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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
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He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
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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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The Fashionable World is grown free and easie our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.
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Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
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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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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
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With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.
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I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
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I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
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Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
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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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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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