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Occasion Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in…
- But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give…
- The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that…
- It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken…
- When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch,and fills the whole Country…
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