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

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. – Joseph Addison

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison

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Happiness
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I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country – Joseph Addison

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Justice
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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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Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them. – Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy

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Confidence

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. – E.F. Schumacher

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Confidence

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. – Sonya Friedman

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Confidence

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604

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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. – Charles Dickens

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If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped. – Aesop [Context note: The beard here mentioned is on a goat. The fox is speaking

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Mustaches

And whats more Ive got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing. – Olivier Martinez

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Dont be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. – Dale Carnegie

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