What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison English Writer More Joseph Addison Quotes 7
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. Joseph Addison English Writer More Joseph Addison Quotes 4
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison English Writer More Joseph Addison Quotes 3
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants. Joseph Addison English Writer More Joseph Addison Quotes 3
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. Joseph Addison English Writer More Joseph Addison Quotes 3
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier! Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. Joseph Addison English Essayist More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. Joseph Addison English Writer More Joseph Addison Quotes 0
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. Joseph Addison English Writer More Joseph Addison Quotes 0