Quotes from Joseph Addison
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.
- Joseph Addison
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
- Joseph Addison
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
- Joseph Addison
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
- Joseph Addison
Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.
- Joseph Addison
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
- Joseph Addison
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
- Joseph Addison
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
- Joseph Addison
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
- Joseph Addison
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
- Joseph Addison
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.
- Joseph Addison
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!
- Joseph Addison