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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

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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Joseph Addison
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True happiness 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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Friendship
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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 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

Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows. – Proverb

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Honor

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. – Francis Bacon

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Honor

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The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. – Potter Stewart

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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. – Sai Baba

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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return. – Samuel Johnson

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Being gay is natural. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice. – John Fugelsang, 2013 tweet

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