122 Quotations by Joseph Addison
- 61. Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
- 62. Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
- 63. Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
- 64. No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of ...
- 65. No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of ...
- 66. Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
- 67. Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of ...
- 68. One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
- 69. Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the applica ...
- 70. Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blacke ...
- 71. Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
- 72. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object or to grasp at anything that is too big for it's c ...
- 73. Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments.
- 74. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of ma ...
- 75. Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
- 76. Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
- 77. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
- 78. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything ...
- 79. See in what peace a Christian can die.
- 80. Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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