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It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others. We have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.
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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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That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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There is a great amity between designing and art.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
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Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.
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The time never lies heavy upon him it is impossible for him to be alone.
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The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.
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Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.
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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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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
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