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

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. – Joseph Addison

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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. – Joseph Addison

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Instinct
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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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Courage
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. – Joseph Addison

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Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. – Jean Sibelius

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We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Confidence

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. – John Powell

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Confidence

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. – Epicurus

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