There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
JOSEPH ADDISONCertain 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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