Joseph Addison's Quotes

Joseph Addison's Quotes 37

Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom...

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or...

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I will indulge my sorrows and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and...

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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem...

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the...

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest...

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear...

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of...

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the...

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning...

The utmost extent of man's knowledge is to know that he knows nothing.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination...

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess we act and think in vain...

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already...

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do...

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are...

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many...

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the...

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