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Quote by Joseph Addison
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. - Joseph A

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. – Joseph Addison

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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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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. – Joseph Addison

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Hope
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. – Joseph Addison

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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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Criticism

Criticism should be a casual conversation. – W. H. Auden

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Criticism

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. – Leo Aikman

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Criticism

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. – Chinese Proverb

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Criticism

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Prudent people are very happy; tis an exceeding fine thing, thats certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. – Carol Ann Duffy

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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. – Jean Rostand

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