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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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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. – Joseph Addison

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Sky & Clouds
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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Patience
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. – Joseph Addison

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Hope
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At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what lifes all about. – Janis Ian

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Wheres the hope that can abate
The grief of hearts thus desolate
That can Youths keenest pangs assuage,
And mitigate the gloom of Age?
Religion bids the tempest cease,
And, leads her to a port of peace;
And on, the lonely pilot steers
Through the lapse of future years. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

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Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Lets hope they make out as well as I did. – Bobby Darin

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Were in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality. – Wallace Shawn

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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Dogs eat. Cats dine. – Ann Taylor

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Im a Mommys Girl – the strongest influence in my young life was my mom. – Susie Bright

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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. – William Penn

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