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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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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. – 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 perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. – Joseph Addison

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Yes, Ive listened to just a few audiobooks – but hope to listen to more. Ive wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating. – Joyce Carol Oates

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I would love to work in America. I wouldnt love to live there, but Id love to experience working there. – Daniel Radcliffe

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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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Men do weird things when they experience fear. Its like a fight-or-flight thing. – Rashida Jones

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