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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.

Joseph Addison
Inspirational, Life, Friendship

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

Joseph Addison
Friendship, Real, Life Is

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

Joseph Addison
Friendship, Real Friends, Secret

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Joseph Addison
Friendship, League, Vices
Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.201

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Joseph Addison
Friendship, Best Friend, Thinking
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.293

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Joseph Addison
Friendship, Party, Justice

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Joseph Addison
Friendship, Friends, Wonder
Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.59

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