Quotes by Joseph Addison
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.
A man should always consider how much more unhappy he might be than he is
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.
There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
The post of honor is a private station.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. 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 is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they ar...
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
