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"Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view."
Author:
Joseph Addison
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Admiration
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
Author:
Joseph Addison
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Authority
"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."
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Joseph Addison
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Books and Reading
"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."
Author:
Joseph Addison
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Censure
"There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected."
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Joseph Addison
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Consequences
"See in what peace a Christian can die."
Author:
Joseph Addison
Category:
Death and Dying
"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"
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Joseph Addison
Category:
Fathers
"The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures."
Author:
Joseph Addison
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Friends and Friendship
"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
Author:
Joseph Addison
Category:
Injury
"Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another."
Author:
Joseph Addison
Category:
Knowledge
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