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''Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.''
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 261 (1711).
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I think a Person who is thus terrifyed [sic] with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and mo...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 110 (1711).
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Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with al...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 261 (1711).
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But to consider this Subject in its most ridiculous Lights, Advertisements are of great Use to the Vulgar: First of all, as they are Instruments of Ambition. A Man that is by no Means big enough for t...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Tatler, No. 224 (1710).
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''Immortal glories in my mind revive,
And in my soul a thousand passions strive,
When Rome's exalted beauties I descry
Magnificent in piles of ruin lie.''
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British essayist and politician. A Letter from Italy (l. 8-13). . .
Oxford Book of Travel Verse, The. Kevin Crossley-H...
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We envy not the warmer clime, that lies
In ten degrees of more indulgent skies,
Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine,
Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine:
'Tis Lib...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British essayist and politician. A Letter from Italy (l. 8-13). . .
Oxford Book of Travel Verse, The. Kevin Crossley-H...
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''With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.''
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British essayist. "Economy and Benevolence," Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments (1...
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''The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.''
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British essayist. "Essay on Pride," Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments (1794).
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''The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.''
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British essayist. "Happiness Not Independent," Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments ...
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause t...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British essayist. "Happiness Not Independent" and Poetical Fragments, Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays (...
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Spacious Firmament On High, The
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The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame
Their great Original proclaim.
Th’unwearied sun, from day to day,
Does his Creator’s powers display,
And publishes to every land
The work of an Almighty Hand.
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