Joseph Addison's Quote - Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses fo

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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses fo

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. – Joseph Addison

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Tis not in mortals to command success, but well do more, Sempronius, well deserve it. – Joseph Addison

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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. – Joseph Addison

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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison

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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. – B. H. Liddell Hart

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As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, This is what I love doing, and I hope Im going to be able to do it forever. – Tom Cruise

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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope! – Camille Claudel

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