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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

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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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A person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. – Joseph Addison

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Ghosts
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. – Joseph Addison

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Humility
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How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! – Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880

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Nature

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot

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Nature

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Nature

Its a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. – Karen Armstrong

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Nature

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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Its very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed. – Ruth J. Simmons

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Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms havent. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Fame changes a lot of things, but it cant change a lightbulb. – Gilda Radner

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