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.


No. 535 (13 November 1712). - The Spectator (1711–1714)

Joseph Addison Quotes

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 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 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 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.