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

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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Patience
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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Happiness
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A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

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Censorship
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. – William Hazlitt

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Nature

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Nature

Man can never be a womans equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Nature

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, its so clean. – Syd Barrett

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Nature

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Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. – Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851

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I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, thats all Id remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me. – Seth Rogen

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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. – Havelock Ellis

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We are now integrated into American society and I dont like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that its going to pass. Its not like that anymore. – Antonio Banderas

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