| Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. |
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- Joseph Addison |
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| The highest degree of wisdom Man can possess is by no means equal to fortuitous events. |
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- Joseph Addison |
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| If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. |
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- Joseph Addison |
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| How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! |
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- Joseph Addison |
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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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- Joseph Addison |
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| If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. |
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- Joseph Addison |
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| Let freedom never perish in your hands. |
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- Joseph Addison |
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| True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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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- Joseph Addison |
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| Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. |
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- Joseph Addison |
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| Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. |
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- Joseph Addison |
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| There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. |
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- Joseph Addison |
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| Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise. |
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- Joseph Addison |
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| When a woman comes to her glass, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress. |
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- Joseph Addison |
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| There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. |
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- Joseph Addison |
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