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Composition Quotes by Joseph Addison
- The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
- When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many…
- When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover…
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- The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good… — Joseph Addison
- My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant
- Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that… — Nick Clegg
- To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. — Christopher Tunnard
- In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we… — Julia Cameron
- At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a… — Robert Bunsen
- If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I… — Elmore Leonard
- I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it… — Hugo Wolf