Quote by Joseph Addison
Tis not in mortals to command success, but well do more, Semproniu

Tis not in mortals to command success, but well do more, Sempronius, well deserve it. – Joseph Addison

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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. – Joseph Addison

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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. – Joseph Addison

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Well never know the worth of water till the well go dry. – Scottish Proverb

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Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!! – Marion D. Hanks

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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. – Proverb

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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. – William James

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I learned three important things in college – to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. – Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952

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