Quote by Joseph Addison
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of gre

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. – Joseph Addison

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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. – Joseph Addison

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Instinct
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. – Joseph Addison

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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison

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Im now learning how to distinguish when Im acting and when Im not acting – offstage as well as onstage. – Micky Dolenz

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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. – Flora Lewis

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Theres always a learning curve, where youve got to learn what your subject is all about. – Brad Gilbert

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The learning process continues until the day you die. – Kirk Douglas

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. – Evelyn Waugh

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When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John Gardner

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