Quotes from Joseph Addison
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
- Joseph Addison
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
- Joseph Addison
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
- Joseph Addison
See in what peace a Christian can die.
- Joseph Addison
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
- Joseph Addison
Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.
- Joseph Addison
It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.
- Joseph Addison
God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.
- Joseph Addison
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
- Joseph Addison
It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.
- Joseph Addison
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
- Joseph Addison
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.
- Joseph Addison