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My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.
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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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As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
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One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.
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Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.
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There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
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There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.
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There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them and?there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
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Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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 man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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