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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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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. – Joseph Addison

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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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I hope to work with kids any way possible. – Jenna Bush

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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. – Oscar Wilde

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