Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Joseph Addison quotes, Joseph Addison sayings, and Joseph Addison proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.Joseph Addison
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The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment.Joseph Addison
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.Joseph Addison
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.Joseph Addison
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.Joseph Addison
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.Joseph Addison
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'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, / When discontent sits heavy at my heart.Joseph Addison
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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
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Joseph Addison
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.Joseph Addison
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Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.Joseph Addison
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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!Joseph Addison
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Joseph Addison
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Modesty is not only an ornament but also a guard to virtue.Joseph Addison
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Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.Joseph Addison
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A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.Joseph Addison
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A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters, there is something which there are no words to express.Joseph Addison
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.Joseph Addison
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the bodyJoseph Addison
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Words, when well-chosen, have so great a Force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.Joseph Addison
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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
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Inconsistency with ourselves is the great weakness of human nature.Joseph Addison