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.
JOSEPH ADDISONSunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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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.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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