Joseph Addison Quotes

To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny

By Joseph Addison

Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it

By Joseph Addison

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

By Joseph Addison

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

By Joseph Addison

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

By Joseph Addison

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

By Joseph Addison

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

By Joseph Addison

There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.

By Joseph Addison

The woman that deliberates is lost.

By Joseph Addison

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

By Joseph Addison

The utmost extent of man's knowledge is to know that he knows nothing.

By Joseph Addison

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

By Joseph Addison

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

By Joseph Addison

The post of honour is a private station.

By Joseph Addison

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

By Joseph Addison

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

By Joseph Addison

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

By Joseph Addison

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

By Joseph Addison

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

By Joseph Addison

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

By Joseph Addison

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

By Joseph Addison

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

By Joseph Addison

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

By Joseph Addison

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life

By Joseph Addison

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

By Joseph Addison

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

By Joseph Addison

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.

By Joseph Addison

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

By Joseph Addison

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

By Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

By Joseph Addison