If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
JOSEPH ADDISONAmong all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
JOSEPH ADDISONA true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
JOSEPH ADDISONIf men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
JOSEPH ADDISONCourage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
JOSEPH ADDISONI consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
JOSEPH ADDISONMen may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
JOSEPH ADDISONMusic, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
JOSEPH ADDISONKnowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISON