Giving Quotes by Joseph Addison

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

— Joseph Addison

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

— Joseph Addison

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the…

— Joseph Addison

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for…

— Joseph Addison

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

— Joseph Addison

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than…

— Joseph Addison

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided…

— Joseph Addison

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

— Joseph Addison

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

— Joseph Addison

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what…

— Joseph Addison

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by…

— Joseph Addison

Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have…

— Joseph Addison

If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put…

— Joseph Addison

The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into…

— Joseph Addison

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather,…

— Joseph Addison

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who…

— Joseph Addison

When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided…

— Joseph Addison

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At…

— Joseph Addison

I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually…

— Joseph Addison

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes…

— Joseph Addison

Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every…

— Joseph Addison

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love…

— Joseph Addison

The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly,…

— Joseph Addison

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and…

— Joseph Addison

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand…

— Joseph Addison

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These…

— Joseph Addison

Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and…

— Joseph Addison