Joseph Addison Quotes

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Joseph Addison

Fact, Whether, Religious

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
Joseph Addison

Age, Men, Forget

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison

Courage, Sense, Often

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph Addison

Wonder, General, Suddenly

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

May, Remember, Young

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

Life, Hope, Dream

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
Joseph Addison

Heart, Laughter, May

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Joseph Addison

Great, Men, Learning

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

Age, Through, Weakness

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph Addison

Music, Good, Greatest

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison

Music, Nothing, Nonsense

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Joseph Addison

Power, Mind, Nothing

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Joseph Addison

Father, Others, Cruel

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison

Nature, Good, Truth

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison

Death, Fear, Often

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Joseph Addison

Mind, Single, Lies

The post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison

Private, Post, Honour

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Joseph Addison

Good, Humility, Youth

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

Life, Mind, Learn

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison

Parent, Sight, Loaded

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison

Knowledge, Nothing, Knows

The woman that deliberates is lost.
Joseph Addison

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison

Against, Criticism, Except

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph Addison

Business, Nothing, Requisite

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 1, 1672

Died: June 17, 1719

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