List of quotes from Joseph Addison
"It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph." by Joseph Addison
"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. " by Joseph Addison
"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others." by Joseph Addison
"Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness." by Joseph Addison
"The great essentials for happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for." by Joseph Addison
"A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes." by Joseph Addison
"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. " by Joseph Addison The Spectator
"A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy." by Joseph Addison
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. " by Joseph Addison
"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. "
by Joseph Addison
"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. "
by Joseph Addison
"Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief. "
by Joseph Addison
"Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. "
by Joseph Addison Women and Liberty
"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. "
by Joseph Addison
"What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. "
by Joseph Addison
"Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. "
by Joseph Addison
"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. "
by Joseph Addison
"A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. "
by Joseph Addison
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