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

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. – Joseph Addison

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Reading
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. – Joseph Addison

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

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Revolution

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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Revolution

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffections failure to substitute misrule for bad government. – Ambrose Bierce

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Revolution

So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. – Samuel Bonom

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Revolution

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Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. – Jesse Lee Bennett

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There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. – Vladimir Lenin

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I slip from workaholic to bum real easy. – Matthew Broderick

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You know, its not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. – James Baldwin

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