Joseph Addison quotes Born: 05/01/1672 Died: 06/17/1719 Country: united_kingdom

• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. (Joseph Addison) [mind]
• The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. (Joseph Addison) [fear/death/people/destroy]
• See in what peace a Christian can die. (Joseph Addison) []
• Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. (Joseph Addison) [storm]
• There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. (Joseph Addison) [more/business]
• Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. (Joseph Addison)
• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. (Joseph Addison) [health/mind/soul & body]
• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. (Joseph Addison) [education/human]
• That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? (Joseph Addison) [willpower]
• 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. (Joseph Addison) [conscience/health/soul & body/more]
• 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)
• 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) [think/weakness/age/persecution]
• I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. (Joseph Addison) [willpower/give]
• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. (Joseph Addison) [defense]
• 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. (Joseph Addison) [epitaph/words]
• Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. (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) [love/desire/words]
• The post of honor is a private station. (Joseph Addison)
• 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. (Joseph Addison) [happiness]
• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. (Joseph Addison) [happiness/misfortune]
• Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. (Joseph Addison) [wonder]
• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison) [happiness/life/love]
• The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. (Joseph Addison)
• 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) [human/life/enjoyment]
• 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. (Joseph Addison) [moment/mind]
• Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. (Joseph Addison) [knowledge/virtue]
• One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. (Joseph Addison) [take/care/pleasure/life]
• The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. (Joseph Addison) [disease]
• If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. (Joseph Addison) [laughter]
• Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. (Joseph Addison) [weakness/human/nature]
• Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. (Joseph Addison) [men/give/forget/age]

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