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Quote by Joseph Addison
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that g

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. – Joseph Addison

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison

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Charity
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Joseph Addison
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. – Joseph Addison

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Age
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Nature
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Nature

Nature is wont to hide herself. – Heraclitus

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Nature

Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. – David Deutsch

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Nature

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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Nature

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A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. – Author Unknown

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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion – theyre two words which are both… different. In spelling. – Eddie Izzard

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Religion

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, thats all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future. – Nick Carter

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Change

Chinas idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks. – Virginia Foxx

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Forgiveness