Quote by Joseph Addison
We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison

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Age
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – Joseph Addison

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Nature
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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. – Joseph Addison

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Words
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. – Ted Koppel

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History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. – Enoch Powell

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[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that – Julian Barnes

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness. – Billy Graham

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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. – Torquato Tasso

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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night. – Malcolm Boyd

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