The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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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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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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