Joseph Addison Quotes

He who hesitates is lost.

Senyum bagi manusia adalah ibarat cahaya matahari bagi bunga.
Kelihatannya sepele, tetapi apabila disebarkan sepanjang hidup, manfaatnya tidak bisa dihitung.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.

Tis not in mortals to command success; but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow;

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

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.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

"We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of Time

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;
Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.