Quotes by Joseph Addison

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

#Joseph Addison

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a...

#Joseph Addison

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are...

#Joseph Addison

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their...

#Joseph Addison

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what...

#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

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