Joseph Addison's Quote - Tis not in mortals to command success, but well do more, Semproniu

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Tis not in mortals to command success, but well do more, Sempronius, well deserve it. – Joseph Addison

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison

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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. – Joseph Addison

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There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. – Joseph Addison

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