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 ADDISONTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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