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A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.
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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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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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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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There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
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If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put it in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of those who are much superior to them in strength, number, and interest.
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Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
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