Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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