Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

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"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

Love

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

- Joseph Addison

Love

"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

Love

"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

Compassion

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief;"

- Joseph Addison

Happiness

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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

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"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

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"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

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"The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing."

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"As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried after a good long life."

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