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Quote by Joseph Addison
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his countrys ruin! – Joseph Addison

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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. – Joseph Addison

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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – 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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The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all — he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly. – Albert Camus

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I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. – John Mason Brown

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I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left the feeling that I could change the world only by being there. – Viorica Butnariu

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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. – Edmund Burke

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Nature has placed man under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. – Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789

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The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great. – William John Wills

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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. – Henry David Thoreau

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Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Lets hope they make out as well as I did. – Bobby Darin

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