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Quote by Joseph Addison
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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Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. – Joseph Addison

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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. – Joseph Addison

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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. – Seamus Heaney

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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. – Michelangelo

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Im actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think its a depressing word. I dont want to hope – I want to know. Like I dont hope theres a God, I know theres a God. – Kelly Clarkson

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Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief. – Franz Schubert

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English majors understand human nature better than economists do. – Jane Smiley

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Were still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. – Scott Cook

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You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self. – Hugh Laurie

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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. – Mahatma Gandhi

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