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Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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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.
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Joseph Addison
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
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Joseph Addison
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
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Joseph Addison
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Joseph Addison
True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.
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Joseph Addison
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Joseph Addison
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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Joseph Addison
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Joseph Addison
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
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Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature: to be so to the utmost of our agilities is the glory of man.
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Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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Joseph Addison
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Joseph Addison
When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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Joseph Addison
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
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Joseph Addison
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Joseph Addison
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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Joseph Addison
There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
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