Quote by Joseph Addison
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. - Joseph Addison

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. – Joseph Addison

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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. – Joseph Addison

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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as Gods children. – Phillips Brooks

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Whats the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. – Terry Bradshaw

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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. – Henrik Ibsen

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Mediocrity is a hand-rail. – Montesquieu, Mes pensées

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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. – Oscar Hammerstein II

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