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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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A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. – Joseph Addison

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. – Samuel Smiles

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I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad – experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But theres no question women are paid less. Women dont ask. – Dee Dee Myers

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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They dont start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like. – John Polkinghorne

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My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine. – Jane Pauley

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Luck runs out but safety is good for life. – Author unknown

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