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JOSEPH ADDISON We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON BURNAP We walk a fine line. We realize the tradition of the fair is very important, but it's incumbent on u...
ERROL MCKOY Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of ...
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JENNIFER EBELHAR The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities ar...
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DAVID BAHLMAN Keep to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think, I feel. Don't b...
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LARRY ELLISON So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's jus...
KURT LODER Hardship makes us to rely solely on God for help.
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SHANE FARRELL He can't help himself but make personal attacks and misleading statements to distort the real differ...
DOUGLAS HATTAWAY This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which i...
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MARIANO RAJOY There are animals that you cannot legally own without a permit in Virginia, and frankly permitting t...
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Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
But th...
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Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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JOSEPH ADDISON 'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius,--
We'll deserve it.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
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Through all her works) he ...
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Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
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always represented as blind.
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Ours has s...
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JOSEPH ADDISON To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
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JOSEPH ADDISON There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which...
JOSEPH ADDISON We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISON Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
JOSEPH ADDISON Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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JOSEPH ADDISON See in what peace a Christian can die.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
JOSEPH ADDISON The post of honor is a private station.
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JOSEPH ADDISON There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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JOSEPH ADDISON A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in
writing, provided a man would talk to...
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JOSEPH ADDISON The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these
great masters, is this, that they...
JOSEPH ADDISON Much might be said on both sides.
JOSEPH ADDISON Should the whole frame of nature round him break
In ruin and confusion hurled,
He, unconcerned...
JOSEPH ADDISON Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.
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is only to be met with in minds wh...
JOSEPH ADDISON Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to save our country!
JOSEPH ADDISON O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate,
And not the wonders of thy youth relate;
How can I see th...
JOSEPH ADDISON Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
. . . .
Endless...
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virtue.
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JOSEPH ADDISON It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentl...
JOSEPH ADDISON When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view I'm lost,
...
JOSEPH ADDISON Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the li...
JOSEPH ADDISON Let echo, too, perform her part,
Prolonging every note with art;
And in a low expiring strain,...
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it is made the reply to calumny an...
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JOSEPH ADDISON Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what...
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attractive, knowledge delightful and wit g...
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nation, than a want of zeal in its inhab...
JOSEPH ADDISON My death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me.
JOSEPH ADDISON I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
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the works of the author who has wri...
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JOSEPH ADDISON I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a
thousand pounds.
JOSEPH ADDISON Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,
And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
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JOSEPH ADDISON And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.
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one, health is preserved, strength...
JOSEPH ADDISON In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our
duty.
JOSEPH ADDISON Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.
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And heavily in clouds brings on the day,
The great, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),
The ...
JOSEPH ADDISON On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.
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employ our artisans in printing, and...
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proper method to catch the reader's ey...
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paper to be punctually served up, ...
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they are instruments of ambition. ...
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JOSEPH ADDISON It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!--
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
...
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heart, his next to escape the censu...
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Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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obtaining it, and the danger of losing ...
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JOSEPH ADDISON Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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JOSEPH ADDISON How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
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JOSEPH ADDISON The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou sha...
JOSEPH ADDISON A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
JOSEPH ADDISON I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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JOSEPH ADDISON What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fru...
JOSEPH ADDISON I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot r...
JOSEPH ADDISON What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...
JOSEPH ADDISON True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, fr...
JOSEPH ADDISON The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
JOSEPH ADDISON A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed ...
JOSEPH ADDISON O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON Yet then from all my grief, O Lord,
Thy mercy set me free,
Whilst in the confidence of pray'r
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JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON