Joseph Addison Quotes

English - Writer May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Friendship, Happiness, Self, True, Place

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Fitness, Mind, Body, Reading, Exercise

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. - Joseph Addison

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Sunday, Week, Away, Rust, Whole, Clears

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.

Life, Smile, Good, Sunshine, Flowers

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. - Joseph Addison

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Happiness, Blessing, Man, Mind, Enjoy

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Day, Sunshine, Great, Blessings, Cloudy

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.

Life, Friend, Success, Hope, Wise, You

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Patience, Blessings, See, Us, Real, Our

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Joseph Addison

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Life, Good, Reading, Good Life, Living

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Life, Friendship, Enjoyment, Human, Few

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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. - Joseph Addison

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Advice, Nothing, Which, Much, Receive

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Man, Red, Greatness, Heaven, Country

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Only, Virtue, Modesty, Guard, Ornament

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Moment, Clouds, Mind, Serenity, Up, Kind

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Perfect, Imperfection, Quiet, Gentle

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Nature, Weakness, Human Nature, Human

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

Nature, Good, Truth, Praise, Sense, Gain

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Lust, Hunger, Kind, First, Most, Call

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

World, True, Worth, Things, Observation

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Mountain, Justice, Violence, Force, Nor

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Woman, Wedding, Clothes, She, Advice

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Education, Soul, Sculpture, Marble

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Life, Love, Happiness, Hope, Three

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. - Joseph Addison

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Day, Clock, Right, Twice, Even, Stopped

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Best, Health, Mind, Body, Friendly

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Life, Nature, Man, Grief, Humanity, Our

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