Joseph Addison Quotes & Joseph Addison Sayings

"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." Joseph Addison Adages "Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage." Joseph Addison 'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us. Joseph Addison A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. Joseph Addison A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. Joseph Addison Quotes Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. Joseph Addison Quotes Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. Joseph Addison All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter Joseph Addison An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. Joseph Addison Sayings Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Joseph Addison Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable Joseph Addison Popular Quotes 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 Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. Joseph Addison Popular Quotes 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 Quotes Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity Joseph Addison Quotes Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. Joseph Addison Popular Quotes Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. Joseph Addison Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. Joseph Addison 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 Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. Joseph Addison Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. Joseph Addison Popular Quotes Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty Joseph Addison He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. Joseph Addison Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other Joseph Addison Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. Joseph Addison How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! Joseph Addison I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country’s laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity it self. Whatever passion enters into a sentence or decision, so far will there be in it a tincture of injustice. In short, justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it. Joseph Addison I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Joseph Addison I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake. Joseph Addison I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. Joseph Addison Adages I value my garden more for being full [of] blacbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. Joseph Addison If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. Joseph Addison If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter Joseph Addison Quotations If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Joseph Addison 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 Quotations If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison 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 In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me. Joseph Addison Quotes It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. Joseph Addison It must be so - Plato, thou reason'st well! -/ Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, / This longing after immortality? Joseph Addison Quotations 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 Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Joseph Addison Sayings Let freedom never perish in your hands. Joseph Addison Popular Quotes Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Joseph Addison Quotes Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, Joseph Addison 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 Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood Joseph Addison Sayings 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 Remarks Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. Joseph Addison Remarks Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Joseph Addison Popular Quotes Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! Joseph Addison Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. Joseph Addison Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false Joseph Addison One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. Joseph Addison Remarks One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. Joseph Addison Quotes Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. Joseph Addison Quotes Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise. Joseph Addison Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Joseph Addison Popular Quotes Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Joseph Addison Remarks Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Joseph Addison Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. Joseph Addison Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. Joseph Addison Remarks Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. Joseph Addison Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. Joseph Addison Sayings The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. Joseph Addison The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. Joseph Addison The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; ours has severest virtue for its basis, and such a friendship ends not but with life. Joseph Addison 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 Adages 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 Quotes The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair Joseph Addison The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. Joseph Addison The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action Joseph Addison Quotations The spacious firmament on high, / And all the blue ethereal sky, / And spangled heavens, a shining frame, / Their great Original proclaim. Joseph Addison The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. Joseph Addison The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. Joseph Addison There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as Justice. Most of the other virtues are the virtues of created Beings, or accommodated to our nature as we are men. Justice is that which is practised by God himself, and to be practised in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and Omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it. The one, to discover every degree of uprightness or iniquity in thoughts, words and actions. The other, to measure out and impart suitable rewards and punishments. As to be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of a man. Such an one who has the publick administration in his hands, acts like the representative of his Maker, in recompencing the virtuous, and punishing the offender. Joseph Addison There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. Joseph Addison There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. Joseph Addison Popular Quotes There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. Joseph Addison Remarks There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol Joseph Addison There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected. Joseph Addison Sayings There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. Joseph Addison Remarks There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. Joseph Addison Popular Quotes There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. Joseph Addison Sayings There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. Joseph Addison Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison Remarks Through all eternity to thee, a joyful song I'll raise; for oh! Eternity's too short to utter all thy praise. Joseph Addison To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny Joseph Addison To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. Joseph Addison To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. Joseph Addison Popular Quotes True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. Joseph Addison Quotes True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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 Quotes We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull Joseph Addison We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. Joseph Addison What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country! Joseph Addison Popular Quotes What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison 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 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 When a woman comes to her glass, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress. Joseph Addison Popular Quotes When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. Joseph Addison Adages Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. Joseph Addison