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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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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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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
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When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
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A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness.
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It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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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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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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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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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.
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Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?
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It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.
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A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.
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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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It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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