Joseph Addison Quotes
+24Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts,Old age is slow in both.
- Joseph Addison
+5Let freedom never perish in your hands.
- Joseph Addison
+3Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
- Joseph Addison
+3If there’s a power above us, and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works he must delight in virtue.
- Joseph Addison
+1Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
+1Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
- Joseph Addison
+1But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.
- Joseph Addison
+1Allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.
- Joseph Addison
+1It must be so, Plato, thou reason’st well!
- Joseph Addison
+1There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude.
- Joseph Addison
+1Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
- Joseph Addison
+1Knowledge is indeed that which next to virtue truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- Joseph Addison
+1Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,Hast thou more of pain or leasure! Endless torments dwell about thee:Yet who would live, and live without thee!
- Joseph Addison
+1A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
- Joseph Addison
+1What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
- Joseph Addison
+1There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
- Joseph Addison
+1It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more.
- Joseph Addison
+1There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
- Joseph Addison
+1A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
- Joseph Addison
+1I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Joseph Addison
+1A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
- Joseph Addison
+1What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
- Joseph Addison
0The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
- Joseph Addison
-1Young people soon give, and forget INSULTS, but old age is slow in both.
- Joseph Addison
