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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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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? – Joseph Addison

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Father
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. – Joseph Addison

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Faith
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. – Joseph Addison

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Other Quotes from
Hope
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I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world. – Lech Walesa

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Hope

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. – Gertrude Stein

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Hope

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order. – Mike Huckabee

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Hope

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. – Susanna Moodie

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Hope

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. – Henry Ward Beecher

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It was very hard for all of us. Its still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years… its unbelievable. – Eydie Gorme

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Anniversary

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. – George Orwell

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My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her childrens education. – Spike Lee

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Education