He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.
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Joseph Addison
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Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ...
SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota...
FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv...
SUI HE I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more...
FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ...
FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa...
HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin...
HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ...
HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have...
HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
HE CHANGCHUI
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt abo...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He thought that what I had done was not fierce enough, and I redid it. He was absolutely right.
DOUGLAS KINSEY And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he ...
BIBLE
Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking bo...
KARAN JOHAR
He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
EDWIN EDWARDS He was in the middle of the field. On the one he missed, he was at an angle and there was a hump in ...
GARY HOUSEHOLDER He was really pretty well out of it. He was a little worried. ... He thought he was in trouble.
FORREST NUNLEY He kept his wit and humor right to the bitter end.
JOANNE CORTESE He was coerced into saying what he said. He thought he was cooperating and truly didn't know what he...
WAZHMA MOJADDIDI
He was a boy in love with a wildfire. Or at least he thought he was
SARAH J. MAAS
He didn't laugh when he thought something was funny--he laughed when he was happy.
RAINBOW ROWELL He (right fielder Jacob Anderson) has a great arm and I thought he was going to throw it to second. ...
GARY MCNAMARA We didn't know where he was. He was missing for a couple of hours. We thought he was at a movie.
HAYDER HASSAN He was great in the second half. In the first half, he looked like a drunk driver.
MIKE DAVIS
There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
ELBERT HUBBARD He thought he was dying. He was at the ends of exhaustion. He was having trouble staying awake betwe...
FERDIE PACHECO
He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.
SARAH DESSEN He was ready. He was determined. He was the best student I ever had. He was such a learner. And he w...
WILLIAM KENNEDY
I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British
WOODY ALLEN He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He ...
PATRICK DOWNES I thought he was kidding when he told me he was going to do it. It was surprising.
JACQUE JONES I saw him fall the first time and he was crawling. I thought he had a seizure. I didn't know. He sai...
LINDA PIRRO I thought he was in control of the game, managed it well, ... He led us. He made the right reads and...
LOVIE SMITH
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting s...
STEVE ALBINI He was like a father to me. He was a down-to-earth guy, very straight forward. He let you know what ...
GARY MARSH I was glad Josh Wolff was out. He has been so hot and so dynamic. He would have caused us trouble. T...
BUZZ LAGOS
[Ruebhausen] was a belt and suspenders person he was a lawyer who thought through all his options bu...
DAVID ROBINSON I'm thinking he thought he was protecting them.
LARRY MULLEN
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
LESLIE FIEDLER He thought he was going to be cleaning in a prison.
CRAIG KAUSEN He was assaulted and robbed so I gave him a few more days to move out. He asked me for a few more da...
DWIGHT MILLER He thought he was dreaming. I was so glad to see him.
CAROLYN WILKERSON He was such a remarkable man? an incredible talent, a fine wit, and at the same time very humble.
BRUCE REITZ (Brian Gilbert) advised that he heard a moan, and was initially excited because he thought he shot a...
WILLIAM JENKINS He didn't place and finished 3-2. He was a little disgusted, frustrated with his performance. He tho...
CASEY SCHWEITZER He put some balls right where they had to be. He was in control and worked the clock down at the end...
FRANK BEAMER If she was making the right and courageous decisions, he thought, she was nonetheless unhappy and so...
DAVID HALBERSTAM
When I got through with him, he was all covered wit' blood, my blood
JIMMY DURANTE He had a big tournament. Chad, he probably got half his points on hustle plays. And he was always th...
BRET WALTER He was kind of in a daze in the first half. Someone snapped a finger, the hypnosis was over, and he ...
LORENZO ROMAR He was awesome tonight. It's his senior year and he didn't want to lose, especially on his home fiel...
TOM KEENAN [Sgt. Joseph Brown, a member of Saylor's platoon, said he was like their official photographer.] He ...
JOSEPH BROWN He called in and said he was feeling bad. The trainer (Larry Davis) thought it was best he stayed at...
BOB GEREN And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from...
BIBLE
Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.
NEAL STEPHENSON You've known him for years. Is he more or less conservative than you thought he was or just about wh...
GORDON PETERSON He was born a politician.
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this ...
KATE ATKINSON He drifted away like he lost every thought he had. He was lost in space.
NEAL THIGPEN He was a manager on the field. When he played, the manager's job was cut in half. He never had to di...
ELROD HENDRICKS I thought it was his arm, I didn't know his face was in the way. When I walked over there, he wasn't...
BRANDON CLAUSSEN
But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.
GEORGE CRABBE When he came in he hadn't done anything for two and half months, so for the first week he was with u...
LAWRIE MCKINNA
Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of th...
JOYCE CAROL OATES He was a wonderful human being. As powerful as he was, he acted like he was your neighbor next door....
RYAN COSTELLO Obviously he was bitter at Calzaghe and the German officials when he thought he won. The reason he h...
BRIAN HUGHES He looked at things as a glass half-full. He was always positive, a kind and constructive leader and...
KIRK KORDELESKI I actually thought he was giving away stuff. There was a lot of people here. It's good he accommodat...
DENISE REED He was working right until the last few days. He was a very active mind.
KIRK PURDY I thought Rodney Carney stepped up really big when he had to. The 3 he hit towards the end of the fi...
DOUG WOJCIK
He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one u...
COCO J. GINGER We all knew he was (staying). Obviously I know that he was offered that deal, but he thought about a...
KARON BRADLEY I thought it was one of those games where he was going to go all the way, ... He was really pumped u...
MARIANO RIVERA He was unaware that he had done anything wrong whatsoever, because he, in fact, calls the police. He...
DICK HARPOOTLIAN A lot of people thought he was toast when he came to us.
GORD ASH He thought there was a personal spark.
ZENO
He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
FRED A. ALLEN He was going through a really, really tough thing. I saw him right before he approached coach Holmgr...
MATT HASSELBECK I thought last year was a miraculous year for him. And he definitely earned my respect last year as ...
DAVE DUNCAN It was like he was asleep. He was so relaxed. I let him run a little at the half-mile, and then agai...
ALEX SOLIS
Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he wa...
GRAYDON CARTER He was so pleased when he qualified and thought he might not make it. It was very important to him t...
ARBERDELLA DAVIS I thought he became a man that day. I thought it was a great learning opportunity, and he took advan...
BOB CLUCK ...I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would fina...
BETH PATTILLO
My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific,...
STURGILL SIMPSON It was just what we were wanting, a nice easy half. It was a little maintenance move, to let him str...
DAN PEITZ We bonded right after the tragedy. Kyle was unbelievable. He was definitely not defeated, he was the...
GEOFF WALKER I thought he played pretty well; he did a lot of things we asked him to do. No. 1, he had a lot of p...
TIM LAPPANO I thought he was joking.
COREY SMITH You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, ...
ALAN LOMAX He chose people he thought would make a difference in the game and challenged them. He taught indivi...
BUTCH LAWSON Kelly was terrific. He was good in every aspect of the game. He got his head up a little bit the fir...
KEVIN STALLINGS
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Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
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My voice is still for war.
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Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul,
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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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The post of honor is a private station.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a f...
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they ...
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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Should the whole frame of nature round him break
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Better to die ten thousand deaths,
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O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate,
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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
. . . .
Endless...
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When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view I'm lost,
...
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Soon as the evening shades prevail,
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And nightly to the li...
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Let echo, too, perform her part,
Prolonging every note with art;
And in a low expiring strain,...
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But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when
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Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!
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Through what...
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My death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me.
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
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When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after
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I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a
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Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,
And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
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And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our
duty.
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Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.
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The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day,
The great, ...
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(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),
The ...
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.
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I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this
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It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!--
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The love of a family is life's greatest blessing
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When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
JOSEPH ADDISON
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ca...
JOSEPH ADDISON
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it JOSEPH ADDISON
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures a...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou sha...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if na...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell abou...
JOSEPH ADDISON
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle...
JOSEPH ADDISON
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fru...
JOSEPH ADDISON
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot r...
JOSEPH ADDISON
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...
JOSEPH ADDISON
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, fr...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
JOSEPH ADDISON
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON
From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord,
Thy mercy set me free,
Whilst in the confidence of pray'r
...
JOSEPH ADDISON
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON