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.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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