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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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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.
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A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
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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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The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
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Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.
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Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
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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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Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
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A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.
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I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
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Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
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What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
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I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.
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Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
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