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What I spent I lost what I possessed is left to others what I gave away remains with me.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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Virtue which shuns, the day.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.
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There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
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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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A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.
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The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
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