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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Joseph Addison
Thank You, Daughter, Children

Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.

Joseph Addison
Children, Father, Exercise
Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.187

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

Joseph Addison
Children, Government, Childhood
Joseph Addison (1721). “The Spectator, no. 90-505”, p.159

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