Quote by Joseph Addison
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but

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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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. – Joseph Addison

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Reading
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. – Joseph Addison

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Attitude
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. – Andy Rooney

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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. – Herbert Read

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Filling your heart with happiness is more profitable than filling your hands with riches. – Astrid Alauda

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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Id rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. – Ani DiFranco

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Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course. – Eliot Spitzer

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The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. Proverbs 29:15 – Bible

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