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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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The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.
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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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A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.
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Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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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 no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
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There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.
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