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

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. – Joseph Addison

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legal
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Joseph Addison
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. – Joseph Addison

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Experience
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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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Other Quotes from
Confidence
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. – Henrik Ibsen

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Confidence

We learn to wield our own strengths, and fear flips over — dead! – Terri Guillemets, “Getting along, stopping not,” 2007

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Confidence

The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak. – Ralph Charell

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Confidence

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Confidence

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My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts. – Bill Scott

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Guys want a 500 horsepower car. Id rather have one horsepower – in a horse. Thats macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse. – Bryan Callen

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. – Horace

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The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. – James S. Coleman

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