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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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 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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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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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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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