it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
JOSEPH ADDISONAn evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
-
-
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
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 ADDISON -
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
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 -
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
JOSEPH ADDISON