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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
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The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
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T is the Divinity that stirs within us.
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There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.
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The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
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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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There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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The woman that deliberates is lost.
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What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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See in what peace a Christian can die.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.
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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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