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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Joseph Addisson
Right Hon. Joseph Addison
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Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
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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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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
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It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.
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One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.
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My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?
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Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
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The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
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A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
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Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
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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.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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