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A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
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Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.
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I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.
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True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.
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The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.
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The time never lies heavy upon him it is impossible for him to be alone.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.
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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.
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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
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A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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