Quotes from Joseph Addison
Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.
- Joseph Addison
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
- Joseph Addison
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
- Joseph Addison
There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.
- Joseph Addison
Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
- Joseph Addison
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
- Joseph Addison
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
- Joseph Addison
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
- Joseph Addison
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
- Joseph Addison
Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
- Joseph Addison
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
- Joseph Addison