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Joseph Addison - From the Aging category:
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)
Joseph Addison - From the Application category:
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Colour category:
Colors speak all languages. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Contentment category:
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Criticism category:
There is no defense against criticism except obscurity. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Critics category:
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Desire category:
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Education category:
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Ego category:
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Future category:
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Generosity category:
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Happiness category:
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Health category:
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Humility category:
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Humour category:
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)
Joseph Addison - From the Ideas category:
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Imagination category:
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. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Immortality category:
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. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Influence category:
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Music category:
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, / And all of heaven we have below. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Nature category:
We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Passion category:
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Perfection category:
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)
Joseph Addison - From the Pleasure category:
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Sight category:
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated... (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Space category:
A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Spectator category:
Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life. (Joseph Addison)
Joseph Addison - From the Success category:
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)
Joseph Addison - From the Writing category:
Among all kinds of writing, there is none in which authors are more apt to miscarry than in works of humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel. (Joseph Addison)
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