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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.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
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Poverty palls the most generous spirits it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
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Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.
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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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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.
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The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.
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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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It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.
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Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.
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The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.
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But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
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Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.
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