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It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
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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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The time never lies heavy upon him it is impossible for him to be alone.
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A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.
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Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
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I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.
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There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
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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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There is a great amity between designing and art.
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Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
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There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults. Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.
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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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Nature is full of wonders every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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