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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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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. – Joseph Addison

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Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear. – 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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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, thered be a shortage of fishing poles. – Doug Larson

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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. – Walter Savage Landor

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