All Joseph Addison Quotes
- We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. Art
- A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being. Almighty
- Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself… Any
- A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart. Avoid
- Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding. From
- Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst… Amidst
- Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives… Affection
- Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. Apprehension
- One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. Care
- Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. Dreadful
- If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in… Agree
- There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch. Business
- Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations. Alive
- Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. Beget
- In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing… Aloud
- Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. Essentially
- Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. Attacking
- The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. All
- To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. Exempt
- There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently… Accompanied
- Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. Absence
- Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. All
- Let freedom never perish in your hands. Freedom
- True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. Animal
- The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. Friendship