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 ADDISONJealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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