Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in … - Joseph Addison

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Joseph Addison

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Ambitious, Apt, Humour, Literature, Writing

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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

Important, Master, Mind, Powerful

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Gives, Giving, Ideas, Lively, Sight, Words

Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.

Character, Death, Opportunity, Party, Personal, Till

I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.

Christmas, Fall, Happens, Roger, Winter

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

Beautiful, Kings, Reflect, Sorrow, Tombstone, World

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

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The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.

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Van Morrison

The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.

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Sheryl Sandberg

Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

Entailed, Growing Up, Inherited, Loss, Moving, Parents