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A great large book is a great evil.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
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Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
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A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
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Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.
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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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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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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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