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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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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Admiration
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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison

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I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works. – Oscar Wilde

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Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. – William Shakespeare

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Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesnt like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself. – Sydney Madwed

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A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things wont be too bad. – Robert Wagner

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The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. – Billy Graham

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Well, once youve resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and youre past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then Ill do it, you know. – Jarvis Cocker

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My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing – thats really inspiring to me and its influenced me in a positive way. – Melanie Fiona

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