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Quote by Joseph Addison
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. – Joseph Addison

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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. – Joseph Addison

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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison

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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. – Gustave Flaubert

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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. – Lin Yutang

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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. – John Clayton

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