What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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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.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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