#our

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. ↗

— Voltaire

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If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

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When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure. ↗

— Maude Adams

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You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan. ↗

— Maude Adams

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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. ↗

— Samuel Adams

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Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. ↗

— Robert Adamson

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He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they? ↗

— Robert Adamson

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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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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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