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 ADDISONThe 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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