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• Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

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  Hero, Battle, Troops

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.50

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• There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

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  Bible, Song, Passion

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index ...”, p.126

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• What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

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  Bible, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.8

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• The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.

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  Eye, May, Polyphemus

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• The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

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  Pride, Color, Doe

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.250

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• That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.

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  Passion, Eye, House

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• The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

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  God, Perfection, Deities

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• Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

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  Men, Innocent Man, Inequality

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.443

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• Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

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  Marriage, Misery, Scene

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.169

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• That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

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  Offending, Bravery, Uniforms

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.226

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• It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.

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  Vanity, Ill Will, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.675

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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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  Humility, Pride, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.301

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• There is a great amity between designing and art.

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  Art, Design, Amity

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• A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

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  Humility, Exercise, Greatness

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• The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

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  Eye, Self, Ordinary

  Joseph Addison (1712). “The Spectator”, p.196

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• That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

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  Fathers Day, Men, Mean People

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.446

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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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  Wrath, Safety, Atheism

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• Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

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  Music, Religious, Art

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.254

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• Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

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  Life, Choices, Causes

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.473

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• Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

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  Inspirational, Nature, Exercise

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.367

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• One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

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  Hope, Distance, Lying

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.67

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• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

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  Quality, Literature, Gains

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• If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

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  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.390

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• Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

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  Courage, Hero, Men

  Joseph Addison (1808). “The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.38

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• An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

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  Men, Idols, May

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.423

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