Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest… — Quoted

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“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”

Joseph Addison · Nature

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Joseph Addison

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Life

Joseph Addison

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Business

Joseph Addison

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Change

Joseph Addison

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Imagination