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Letter "J" » Joseph Addison Quotes
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«Through all eternity to thee, a joyful song I'll raise; for oh! Eternity's too short to utter all thy praise.»
«The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, The Hours
«Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.»
«The spacious firmament on high, / And all the blue ethereal sky, / And spangled heavens, a shining frame, / Their great Original proclaim.»
«This Mr Dryden calls `the fairy way of writing'.»
«There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country»
«If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world»
«Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness»
«A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.»
«What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.»
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