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The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

Joseph Addison
Character, Fate, Destiny
Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.212

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.

Joseph Addison
Fate, Waiting, Judgment
Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.4

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

Joseph Addison
Morning, Fate, Clouds
Joseph Addison (1825). “Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.1

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