Quotes from Joseph Addison
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
- Joseph Addison
Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.
- Joseph Addison
Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
- Joseph Addison
The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
- Joseph Addison
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
- Joseph Addison
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.
- Joseph Addison
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
- Joseph Addison
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.
- Joseph Addison
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
- Joseph Addison
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
- Joseph Addison
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
- Joseph Addison
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
- Joseph Addison