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Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Milston
Wiltshire
Joseph Addisson
Right Hon. Joseph Addison
Whilst
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When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
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I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
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Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
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The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.
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Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
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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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If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put it in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of those who are much superior to them in strength, number, and interest.
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A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.
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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
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The time never lies heavy upon him it is impossible for him to be alone.
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There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
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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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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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