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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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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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. – Thomas Alva Edison

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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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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens

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We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve. – Doug Horton

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