Quotes from Joseph Addison
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
- Joseph Addison
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
- Joseph Addison
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.
- Joseph Addison
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
- Joseph Addison
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.
- Joseph Addison
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- Joseph Addison
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
- Joseph Addison
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
- Joseph Addison
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.
- Joseph Addison
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.
- Joseph Addison