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We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer... Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease.
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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
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Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
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The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.
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My voice is still for war.
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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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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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My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
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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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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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O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
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A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.
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