"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
― Joseph Addison
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More From Joseph Addison
- "Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt."
- "I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
- "Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."
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- "To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory."― Ozzy Osbourne
- "The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."― Albert Schweitzer
- "Great geniuses have the shortest biographies."― Ralph Waldo Emerson