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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Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. – Joseph Addison

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Health
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. – Joseph Addison

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Life
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. – Joseph Addison

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

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Worth

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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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. – G. K. Chesterton

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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes

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If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. – Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. – P. J. ORourke

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