Quote by Joseph Addison
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. - Joseph Addison

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. – Joseph Addison

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Daughters
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. – Joseph Addison

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Happiness
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Self-love seems so often unrequited. – Anthony Powell

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God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. – Author Unknown

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Confidence

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. – André Dubus

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Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. – Ross Perot

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. – Robert Byrne

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Marriage has just never interested me. – Jacqueline Bisset

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