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Joseph Addison Quotes | Quotes said by Joseph Addison

  • Joseph Addison Quote #1

    A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.


  • Joseph Addison Quote #2

    A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #3

    A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

    Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #6

    Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #7

    Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #8

    Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #9

    I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #10

    I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #11

    If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #12

    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 Quote #13

    Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #14

    It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #15

    Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #16

    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 Quote #17

    No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #18

    Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #19

    Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #20

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

  • Joseph Addison Quote #21

    Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

    The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #24

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

  • Joseph Addison Quote #25

    There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #26

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

  • Joseph Addison Quote #27

    To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #28

    True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

  • Joseph Addison Quote #29

    We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them.- On the Right Use of Time

  • Joseph Addison Quote #30

    What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

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