122 Quotations by Joseph Addison
- 1. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

- 2. A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recen ...

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

- 4. A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

- 5. A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity ...

- 6. A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent whi ...

- 7. A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own s ...

- 8. A man should always consider... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

- 9. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the ce ...

- 10. A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

- 11. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

- 12. Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its obje ...

- 13. An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred ...

- 14. Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few ...

- 15. Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

- 16. As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.

- 17. Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most se ...

- 18. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

- 19. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

- 20. Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generati ...

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