Quotes about Joseph Addison

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

#Joseph Addison

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

#Joseph Addison

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

#Joseph Addison

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

#Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

#Joseph Addison

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

#Joseph Addison

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

#Joseph Addison

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments;...

#Joseph Addison

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

#Joseph Addison

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

#Joseph Addison

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion...

#Joseph Addison

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

#Joseph Addison