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«The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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converts, jealously, malignant, nourishment
«I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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earthquake, impudent, mountebank, pills, shaken, sold
«Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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inexperience, self-sufficiency, sufficiency
«Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.»
«For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, / Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, / Poetic fields encompass me around, / And still I seem to tread on classic ground.»
«What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.»
«If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.»
«We have in England a particular bashfulness in everything that regards religion.»
«It must be so - Plato, thou reason'st well! -/ Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, / This longing after immortality?»
«Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.»
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