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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.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
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A great large book is a great evil.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
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What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
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To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.
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