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Quote by Joseph Addison
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. - Jos

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. – Joseph Addison

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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. – Joseph Addison

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Hope
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. – Joseph Addison

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Instinct
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. – Vicki Baum

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I awoke one morning and found myself famous. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Life is a warfare and a strangers sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. – Marcus Aurelius

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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. – William Blake

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