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.

Quote by Joseph Addison

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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to...

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to...

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object,...

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object,...

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness...

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness...

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that...

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that...

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are...

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are...

The woman that deliberates is lost.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable

In life we don't know how many Love's the Lord will send us, but we...

In life we don't know how many Love's the Lord will send us, but we...

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he...

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he...

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a...

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a...

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by...

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by...

The post of honour is a private station.

The post of honour is a private station.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great...

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great...

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it...

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it...

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.