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Gives Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and…
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
- Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
- Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,…
- Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things…
- The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies…
- Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into…
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- He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that… — Francis Bacon
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- The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. — Robert Baden-Powell