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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. (Joseph Addison)

Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. (Joseph Addison)

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

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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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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

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Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

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Jesters do often prove prophets.

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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. (Joseph Addison)

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

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Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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Joseph Addison

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Occupation: English Essayist
Born: May 1, 1672
Died: June 17, 1719
Quotes count: 308
Wikipedia: Joseph Addison

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