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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.

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.

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

Appreciation, Volunteer, World

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Love, Inspirational, Life

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

Flattery, Persons, Skillful

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Stupid, People, Natural

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Happiness, Patience, Pain

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Inspirational, Life, Success

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Inspirational, Education, Book

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Humble, Humility, Literature

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Knowledge, Men, Next

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.132

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Happiness, Inspiration, Health

"Pray It Forward:daily Meditations". Book by Rowena Holloway and Joyce Bullion, p. 25, 2007.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Beauty, Kindness, Absence

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.402

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Men, Aggravation, Literature

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator; with Notes, and a General Index”, p.346

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

Friendship, Real, Life Is

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Blessed, Blessing, Men

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.300

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Friendship, Real Friends, Secret

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Heart, Hands, Charity

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.386

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Funny, Humor, Criticism

Encourage innocent amusement.

Amusement, Innocent

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Heart, Men, Care

Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.55

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Love, Life, Soul

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.174

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Motivational, Inspiring, Education

The Spectator, No. 215, November 6, 1711.

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. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. 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.

Wise, Men, Vanity

Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.530

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.

Silence, Sublime, Mind

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.251

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