Joseph Addison Quotes - BrainyQuote

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

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Wisdom Man Always More He

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 Place

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

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

Fitness Mind Reading Body Exercise

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

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 Success Hope Perseverance

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 Real

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

Best Health Mind Body

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Sunday Week Away Rust Whole

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

Life Love Happiness Hope

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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Gardening Fruit Garden Value

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.

Life Shadow Hope Think

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Life Man Happy Important

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

Education Soul Sculpture Marble

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

People Humble Wish Be Humble

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 More Only

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

Happiness Blessing Man Enjoy Mind

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

Life Good Reading Good Life

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

Nature Weakness Human Nature Human

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 Things Worth

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Sympathy Way Will Despair

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Me Man Words Somewhere

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 First Hunger Kind

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

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Imagination Soul Surprise Curiosity

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Prosperity Only Others Seen

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