Joseph Addison Quotes

• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to ma ...

  Read Full Quote

• Education is a companion which no misfortune can depres ...

  Read Full Quote

• He who would pass his declining years with honor and co ...

  Read Full Quote

• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are so ...

  Read Full Quote

• When men are easy in their circumstances, they are natu ...

  Read Full Quote

• Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, a ...

  Read Full Quote

• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to ...

  Read Full Quote

• The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People ...

  Read Full Quote

• There is nothing that makes its way more directly to th ...

  Read Full Quote

• One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, an ...

  Read Full Quote

• Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is n ...

  Read Full Quote

• Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. ...

  Read Full Quote

• A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her we ...

  Read Full Quote

• Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of v ...

  Read Full Quote

• I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds tha ...

  Read Full Quote

• I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffe ...

  Read Full Quote

• The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust an ...

  Read Full Quote

• Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ...

  Read Full Quote

• 'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterit ...

  Read Full Quote

• What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our c ...

  Read Full Quote

• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by do ...

  Read Full Quote

• Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the fa ...

  Read Full Quote

• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To ...

  Read Full Quote

• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. Th ...

  Read Full Quote

• Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons o ...

  Read Full Quote

• If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, ...

  Read Full Quote

• An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an ...

  Read Full Quote

• True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the ...

  Read Full Quote

• Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly an ...

  Read Full Quote

• If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bos ...

  Read Full Quote

• Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevail ...

  Read Full Quote

• A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the ev ...

  Read Full Quote

• What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuabl ...

  Read Full Quote

• How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would ...

  Read Full Quote

• True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to ...

  Read Full Quote

• Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. ...

  Read Full Quote

• Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their pro ...

  Read Full Quote