Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire ou…

Joseph Addison
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Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other. ✨ Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition.
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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. ✨ Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747) … ▶
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It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why … ▶
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. ✨ 'Letter from Italy' (1704)
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor. ✨ Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). The Spectator, p.227

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other. ✨ Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition.

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