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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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There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.
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Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
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Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.
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Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
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A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.
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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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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.
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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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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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Virtue which shuns, the day.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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