All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
JOSEPH ADDISONThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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