Best Joseph Addison Wisdom
- A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Antagonist
- A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no… Another Sense
- Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man… Alternately
- It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally… All
- 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… Beginning
- What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. Absurd
- I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher… Beauties
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind Book
- A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. Attractive
- One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master. Difficult
- There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. Beautiful
- I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports… All
- The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves. Drown
- Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. C Sar
- When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to… Any
- Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. Bear
- Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us! Amongst
- Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. Constancy
- 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… Cannot Divine
- For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine. Divine
- Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind. Cleanliness
- Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life. Effect
- No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you. Burden
- A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of… Bachelor
- When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise. All
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