Quote by Joseph Addison
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the great

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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History
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. – Joseph Addison

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Charity
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. – Joseph Addison

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Daughters
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Nature
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature. – Bodhidharma

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Nature

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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Nature

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Nature

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horses good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Nature

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The gospel is neither a discussion or a debate. It is an announcement. – Paul S. Rees

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Bible, The

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences. – Louis Farrakhan

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Family

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted. – Olivia Williams

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Christmas

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and its important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what were doing. – Leon Panetta

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Intelligence