Inspirational Quotes by Joseph Addison

Colors speak all languages.

— Joseph Addison

My voice is still for war.

— Joseph Addison

See in what peace a Christian can die.

— Joseph Addison

Love is a second life ...

— Joseph Addison

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

— Joseph Addison

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

— Joseph Addison

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

— Joseph Addison

Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.

— Joseph Addison

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

— Joseph Addison

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

— Joseph Addison

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

— Joseph Addison

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

— Joseph Addison

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

— Joseph Addison

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

— Joseph Addison

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

— Joseph Addison

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

— Joseph Addison

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

— Joseph Addison

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though…

— Joseph Addison

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of…

— Joseph Addison

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

— Joseph Addison

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that…

— Joseph Addison

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which…

— Joseph Addison

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

— Joseph Addison

Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.

— Joseph Addison

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

— Joseph Addison

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

— Joseph Addison

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

— Joseph Addison