Joseph Addison Quotes (64 quotations)
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51. There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch. - Joseph Addison
52. There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. - Joseph Addison
53. They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. - Joseph Addison
54. To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison
55. To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. - Joseph Addison
56. 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
57. To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. - Joseph Addison
58. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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
59. True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self. - Joseph Addison
60. What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. - Joseph Addison
61. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison
62. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison
63. When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. - Joseph Addison
64. 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
52. There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. - Joseph Addison
53. They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. - Joseph Addison
54. To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison
55. To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. - Joseph Addison
56. 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
57. To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. - Joseph Addison
58. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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
59. True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self. - Joseph Addison
60. What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. - Joseph Addison
61. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison
62. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison
63. When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. - Joseph Addison
64. 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
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