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«To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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sanction, sanctioned, secular, supplies
«Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.»
«As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.»
«It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
complains, imperfect, imperfection
«A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Belief
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on his own, uncharitable
«Let freedom never perish in your hands.»
«The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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aggravation, aggravations, injures, loaded, parent, severity, unjustifiable
«Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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rides, The Whirlwind, whirlwind
«I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.»
«The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.»
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