Quote by Joseph Addison
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom frien

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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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. – Joseph Addison

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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. – Joseph Addison

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Its a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe weve come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a quickening of the spirit. – Neale Donald Walsch

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Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. – Author Unknown

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In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayors Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done. – Rashida Jones

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Theres full consensus in the military that women shouldnt be in person-to-person combat. I dont know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas. – Michelle Bachelet

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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. – Konrad Adenauer

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It was part of your religion to hate the British. – Rebecca Harding Davis

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Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words gay marriage are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it. – Dick Morris

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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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