"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded……" — Joseph Addison
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison has 324 quotes on this site.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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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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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the…
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends…
— Henry Adams
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I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
— Scott Adams
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
— Joseph Addison
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
— Felix Adler
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire…
— William Blake
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number…
— Daniel Boone
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks…
— Lenny Bruce
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