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

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. – Joseph Addison

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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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Hope
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. – Joseph Addison

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Age
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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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Confidence
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How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Confidence

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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Confidence

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make me feel important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. – Mary Kay Ash

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Confidence

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldnt get anyone else to listen to. – Franklin Pierce Adams

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Confidence

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Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. – William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595

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Wise Words

Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Death

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. – Ovid

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strength

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. – Marcus Aurelius

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good