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T is the Divinity that stirs within us.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.
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Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.
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The woman that deliberates is lost.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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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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