Quote by Joseph Addison
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. - Joseph Addison

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. – Joseph Addison

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Pleasure
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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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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – Joseph Addison

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Nature
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. – Walter Bagehot

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. – Aristotle

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. – W. H. Auden

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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all. – Heinrich Heine

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I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge. – Kristin Scott Thomas

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