Quote: A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: See in what peace a Christian can die. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? [Joseph Addison]
Quote: A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: The post of honor is a private station. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. [Joseph Addison]
Quote: Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. [Joseph Addison]