Quote by Joseph Addison
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condit

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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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. – Joseph Addison

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Change
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. – Joseph Addison

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Gratitude
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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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Whatever your lifes work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. – Albert Camus

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. – Mignon McLaughlin

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck

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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. – Patricia Clarkson

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It is not that artistic power has left the world but that a more rapid life has developed itself in it, leaving no time for deliberate dainty decoration or labours of love. – Mrs. Orrinsmith, 1877

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