122 Quotations by Joseph Addison
- 21. Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In ...
- 22. Charity is a virtue of the heart. Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtu ...
- 23. Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
- 24. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
- 25. Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of hon ...
- 26. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which ...
- 27. Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienat ...
- 28. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
- 29. Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w ...
- 30. Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and he ...
- 31. Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
- 32. Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss ...
- 33. From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free in ...
- 34. Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance wh ...
- 35. He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he m ...
- 36. How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
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- 37. Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
- 38. I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot r ...
- 39. I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author w ...
- 40. I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fru ...
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