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My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.
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For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.
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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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Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.
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Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
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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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