122 Quotations by Joseph Addison
- 41. I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
- 42. If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far les ...
- 43. If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater ...
- 44. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of lau ...
- 45. If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ca ...
- 46. If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ...
- 47. Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are oft ...
- 48. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuin ...
- 49. Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath ...
- 50. It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. ...
- 51. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle ...
- 52. It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalr ...
- 53. Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t ...
- 54. Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
- 55. Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of ...
- 56. Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
- 57. Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ...
- 58. Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
- 59. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ...
- 60. Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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