Upon Nature Quotes by Joseph Addison

More Quotes by Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison has 334 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
• Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
• Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we…
• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown…
• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope…
• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies…
• To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become…
• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but…
• True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation…

See all 334 quotes by Joseph Addison »