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Joseph Addison Quotes
«To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.»
«The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich.»
«Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Wit
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congruity, fetching, incongruities, incongruity
«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 a uniform manner»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Courage
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arises, forsakes, sense of duty
«Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing the»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
heaps, irregularity, pearls, stringing, supportable
«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 themselves»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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description, Great A, lively, well-chosen