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“There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.”

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No. 225
The Tatler (1711–1714)

“I have somewhere met with the epitaph of a charitable man, which has very much pleased me. I cannot recollect the words, but the sense of it is to this purpose; What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.”

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No. 177 (22 September 1711)
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.”

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No. 166 (10 September 1711)
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“That nothing is capable of being well set to Musick, that is not Nonsense.”

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No. 18 (March 21, 1711)
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befall us.”

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No. 135
The Guardian (1713)

“When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.”

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Thoughts in Westminster Abbey (1711)

“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.”

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No. 147
The Tatler (1711–1714)

“When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love and praise.”

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No. 453 (9 August 1712)
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”

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No. 25 (29 March 1711)
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!”

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Joseph Addison livre Cato

Act V, scene i
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

“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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Act IV, scene iv
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

“See they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men,
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.”

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Act III, scene v
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

“The man resolved, and steady to his trust,
Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just,
May the rude rabble's insolence despise,
Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries;
The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles,
And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies,
And with superior greatness smiles.”

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Translation of Horace, Odes, Book III, ode iii

“Let echo, too, perform her part,
Prolonging every note with art;
And in a low expiring strain,
Play all the concert o'er again.”

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Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (1699), st. 4

“Music religious heat inspires,
It wakes the soul, and lifts it high,
And wings it with sublime desires,
And fits it to bespeak the Deity.”

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Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1692), st. 4

“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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