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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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Joseph Addisson
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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
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O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
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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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Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
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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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Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.
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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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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
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