Joseph Addison Quotes

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

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. Joseph Addison

Education, Soul, Sculpture, Marble

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

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

Sunday, Week, Away, Rust, Whole, Clears

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

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

Fitness, Mind, Body, Reading, Exercise

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. Joseph Addison

Friendship, Happiness, True Happiness

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. Joseph Addison

Happiness, Blessing, Man, Mind, World

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. Joseph Addison

Life, Smile, Good, Sunshine, Flowers

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. Joseph Addison

Life, Good, Reading, Good Life, Living

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. Joseph Addison

Life, Love, Happiness, Hope, Three

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

Sunshine, Great, Day, Influence, 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. Joseph Addison

Life, Success, Friend, Perseverance

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Joseph Addison
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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. Joseph Addison

Patience, Blessings, Real, See, Shape

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

Life, Friendship, Human Life, Enjoyment

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. Joseph Addison

Advice, Nothing, Receive, Much, Which

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

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

Day, Clock, Right, Twice, Even, Stopped

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

Health, Best, Mind, Body, Friendly

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

Humble, People, Wish, Wishes, Be Humble

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

Virtue, Only, Modesty, Guard, Ornament

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

Gardening, Value, Fruit, Garden, More

Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison

Prove, Prophets, Often

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. Joseph Addison

Nature, Man, Glory, Divine, Just, Our

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. Joseph Addison

Nature, Change, Man, Fool, Ride, Men

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

Morality, Authority, Say, Ground, Fact

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. Joseph Addison

Truth, Man, Stupid, Virtue, Own, Side

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! Joseph Addison

Man, Red, Greatness, Hidden, Country

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. Joseph Addison

Imperfection, Perfect, Quiet, Gentle

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. Joseph Addison

Life, Nature, Man, Grief, Enough, Cruel

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