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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

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Solitude
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. – Joseph Addison

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Learning
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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. – Joseph Addison

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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. – John Milton

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The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is mans disrespect for nature. – Joni Mitchell

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Nature

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. – Deepak Chopra

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Nature

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. – Thor Heyerdahl

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Flattery works like a drug. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007

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When a woman wants a man and lusts after him, the lover need not bother to conjure up opportunities, for she will find more in an hour than we men could think of in a century. – Source Unknown

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