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 ADDISONA man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
-
-
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
JOSEPH ADDISON