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

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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

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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. – Joseph Addison

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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. – Joseph Addison

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War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. – Jane Goodall

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The upward course of a nations history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. – Queen Elizabeth II

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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didnt eat lunch. – A. N. Wilson

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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. – Molly Ivins

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