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Quote by Joseph Addison
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and imp

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. – Joseph Addison

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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

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Learning about all those different things psychologically – about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it. – Richie Sambora

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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. – Lord Chesterfield

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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business – writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. – Jackson Browne

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We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, weve grown and are learning to accommodate each others differences. – Layne Staley

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. – Tony Visconti

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Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. – E.H. Chapin

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