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Quote by Joseph Addison
The post of honor is a private station. - Joseph Addison

The post of honor is a private station. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. – Joseph Addison

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parenting
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Joseph Addison
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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

Category:
Happiness
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Joseph Addison
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Words
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Joseph Addison
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Other Quotes from
Honor
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Honor

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau

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Honor

Honor is the reward of virtue. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Honor

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Honor

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Since the majority of me
Rejects the majority of you,
Debating ends forthwith, and we
Divide. – Philip Larkin

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Whether women are better than men I cannot say — but I can say they are certainly no worse. – Golda Meir

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