"Content thyself to be obscurely good." — Joseph Addison
"Content thyself to be obscurely good."
—
Joseph Addison
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison has 324 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…
-
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…
-
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
-
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable…
-
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
-
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…
-
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
-
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
See all 324 quotes by Joseph Addison »
More Content Quotes
This quote is filed under Content Quotes,
one of 1,935 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought…
— Frank Abagnale
-
A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they…
— Dave Attell
-
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
Be content to seem what you really are.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
-
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
-
There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
— Kevin Bacon
-
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
-
There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being…
— Drew Barrymore
-
Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
-
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
See all 1,935 Content Quotes »
