Psychology Quotes by Joseph Addison

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

— Joseph Addison

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.”

— Joseph Addison

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

— Joseph Addison

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

— Joseph Addison

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

— Joseph Addison

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

— Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

— Joseph Addison

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

— 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

A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder…

— Joseph Addison

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication…

— Joseph Addison

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up…

— Joseph Addison

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

— Joseph Addison

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him…

— Joseph Addison

Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.

— Joseph Addison

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero…

— Joseph Addison

Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her…

— Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by…

— Joseph Addison

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,…

— Joseph Addison

To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new…

— Joseph Addison

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness…

— Joseph Addison

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind…

— Joseph Addison

It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,…

— Joseph Addison

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of…

— Joseph Addison

I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the…

— Joseph Addison

“Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.”

— Joseph Addison

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

— Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

— Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

— Joseph Addison

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and…

— Joseph Addison

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”

— Joseph Addison

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its…

— Joseph Addison

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all…

— Joseph Addison

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth…

— Joseph Addison

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the…

— Joseph Addison

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant…

— 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

I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention…

— Joseph Addison

A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in…

— Joseph Addison