Joseph Addison Quotes

Rahmat sering datang kepada kita dalam bentuk kesakitan, kehilangan dan kekecewaan.
Tetapi kalau kita sabar, kita segera akan melihat bentuk aslinya.

I am...I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

Nothing is so much admired, and so little understood, as wit.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods.

I'd have that man (Cato) approve my deeds, than worlds for my admirers.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Whoe’er is brave and virtuous, is a Roman.

There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride

... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

And, pleased th’ Almighty’s orders to perform,
Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.