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Quotes by Joseph Addison
- I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
- 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.
- 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.
- Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
- It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
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