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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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To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
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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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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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It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.
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A great large book is a great evil.
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The woman that deliberates is lost.
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Love is a second life it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.
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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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Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
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Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
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Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.
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