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Kind Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of…
- Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none…
- The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter…
- There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.
- There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle…
- Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.
- Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
- Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for…
- I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series…
- There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its…
- An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man…
- Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary…
- 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…
- Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
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