"Husband a lie, and trump it up in……" — Joseph Addison
"Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency."
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324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison has 324 quotes on this site.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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More Emergencies Quotes
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover…
— Wendell Berry
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have…
— Bjork
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If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone…
— Bono
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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
— Bono
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I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in…
— Dick Cheney
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It's absolutely the wrong signal, I think, to those who have entered this country legally or those who may be…
— Elizabeth Dole
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There are nearly 1 million Americans who visit the emergency room each year because of dental pain at a cost…
— Miles O'Brien
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
— Natalie Goldberg
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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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