Joseph Addison Quotes

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  What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the soul.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Education, Inspirational

  Tags in Tolerance

• The great essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Happiness

• One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• It must be so—Plato, thou reason’st well! – Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ‘Tis the divinity that stirs within us; ‘Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought !

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• 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

  Topics in Experience, Life

  Tags in Elder, Caution, Perseverance, Succeed, Hope

• Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• See in what peace a Christian can die.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and…there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• ‘We are always doing,’says he, ‘something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.’

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Content thyself  to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of  honour  is a private station.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• What a pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Curse on his virtues! they’ve undone his country.Such popular humanity is treason.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Were you with these, my prince, you’d soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• ’Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Tis not in mortals to command success, But we’ll do more, Sempronius ; we’ll deserve it.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Our disputants put me in mind of the skuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• In Reason’s ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing, as they shine: ‘The hand that made us is divine.’

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

Joseph Addison (127)

Birth:	1st May, 1672
Death:	17th June, 1719
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Poet, Politician, Playwriter

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