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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

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

Joseph Addison

Love, Inspirational, Life

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.

Joseph Addison

Inspirational, Life, Success

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

Joseph Addison

Inspirational, Education, Book

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

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

Joseph Addison

Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Joseph Addison

Inspirational, Happiness, You Make Me Happy

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Joseph Addison

Inspirational, Funny, Nature

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.191

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Joseph Addison

Inspirational, Get Well, Yoga

The Spectator Vol. V, No. 387 (1712)

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Joseph Addison

Inspirational, People, Prudent

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison

Inspirational, Nature, Exercise

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.367