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Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
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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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.
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The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
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That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.
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Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.
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If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
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The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.
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Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
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Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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