Joseph Addison Quotes

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 proper figures.

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

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.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

An empty desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.