Quote by Joseph Addison
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. - Joseph Addison

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. – Joseph Addison

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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 perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. – Joseph Addison

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How True!
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his countrys ruin! – Joseph Addison

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Revolution
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Confidence
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. – Epicurus

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Confidence

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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Confidence

Be courageous, believe in yourself, and be the best woman you can be. Im with you all the way. – Gillian Anderson

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Confidence

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them. – Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy

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Confidence

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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. – Edmund Burke

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good

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. – Vaclav Havel

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Absurdity

A hug is like a bandage to a hurting wound. – Author Unknown

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Hugs

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. – Mary Douglas

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funny