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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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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. – Joseph Addison

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

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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. – Johann von Goethe

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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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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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