Joseph Addison Quotes

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Joseph Addison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719

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I am pleased with the direction we are moving in.

Jim Nussle

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Talking to people who have served was eye-opening and left me with a huge amount of respect for what they do.

Joe Alwyn

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Discipline is creating the situation.

Shunryu Suzuki

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For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.

Matt Bomer

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I'm obsessed with 'The Americans.' It's one of my favorite shows. I also love 'Baskets' - low-brow, high-art comedy.

Jay Duplass

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I believe that every fight we've had is a big fight, and every fight we've had is a fight where I've learned a lot of things in the ring, I learn about myself, and it's sort of pushed me to know where I can go.

Joseph Parker

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One of my closest friends is a trans man who is incredible. And a lot of my clients are trans women.

Jonathan Van Ness

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We all want something. Some people take the right path, and some people don't.

Christopher Markus

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I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.

Clive Barker

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I think Von Miller's got great style. For a defensive end, I think he has receiver-type style, swag.

Antonio Brown

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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Sydney J. Harris

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I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you're going to be very cliche there. You know, you've got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he's wrong.

Sean Bean

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