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Joseph Addison Quotes
«'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
haughtiness, Pride and, the Romans
«Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
scrutinize, scrutinized, scrutinizing
«I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of winter»
«We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
arrive at, Down in It, fain, settlements, The Settlement, up and down, wastes
«An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
absurdity, debar, debarred, ostentatious, relate