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Quotes of Joseph Addison 1860-1935 American Writer Social Reformer
Joseph Addison Photo and Biography
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. (contentment)
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. (death and dying)
See in what peace a Christian can die. (death and dying)
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. (editing and editors)
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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. (business)
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. (confidence)
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. (cheerfulness)
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. (education)
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? (fathers)
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. (conscience)
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. (dullness)
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. (censure)
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. (despair)
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. (critics and criticis)
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. (giving)
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. (honor)
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. (family)
The post of honor is a private station. (honor)
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (happiness)
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. (friends and friendsh)
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. (friends and friendsh)
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. (happiness)
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. (friends and friendsh)
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. (friends and friendsh)
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. (humor)
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