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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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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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. – 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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There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They dont mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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

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