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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Below Good Greatest Heaven Mortal Music Wisdom
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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Act Create Dream Hope Life Possess Really Shadow
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Bosom Brother Counselor Elder Experience Inspirational Life Make Relevance Success
it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Apprehension Befallen Found Generally Happen Really Suffer
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Ensure Expose Flatter Flattery Hand Liable Men Other
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Expression Mind Most Noble Significance Silence Sometimes Sublime
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Believe Own Side Stupid Uncharitable War
Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Honor Inexperience Men Mischief Real
This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Command Deserve Merit Sempronius Success
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Blow Compassion Edge Form Mind Passion Temper Tenderness Women
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Birth Evening Listen Listening Moon Repeat Shade Stories Take Tale Wondrous
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.
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Evil Future Men Moment Present Secret
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Authority Exorbitance Inflict Legal Oppression Political Politics Prevention
A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Assault Character Dream Good Habit Impregnable Iron
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Form Hypocrisy Knowledge Learning Pedant Power
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Admire Discover Familiar Fresh Grow Immediately Life Object Passion Respect Upon

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

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