Joseph Addison on moment
Joseph Addison134 quotes“There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.”
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
Joseph AddisonJoseph 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 AddisonJoseph Addison Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph AddisonJoseph 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 AddisonJoseph Addison Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison I 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 AddisonJoseph Addison On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison Men 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 AddisonJoseph Addison I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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