Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."
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"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."
Joseph Addison
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
Joseph Addison
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
Joseph Addison
"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."
Joseph Addison
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."
Joseph Addison
"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
Joseph Addison
"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
Joseph Addison
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Joseph Addison
"To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny."
Joseph Addison
"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
Joseph Addison
"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
Joseph Addison
"A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes."
Joseph Addison
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner."
Joseph Addison
"The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing."
Joseph Addison
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
Joseph Addison
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
Joseph Addison
"Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense."
Joseph Addison
"To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man."
Joseph Addison
"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."
Joseph Addison
"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
Joseph Addison
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