We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISONWe are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISONRides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISONAccording to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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 ADDISONThere is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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 ADDISONNature 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 ADDISONLet freedom never perish in your hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONIn private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
JOSEPH ADDISONIt is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
JOSEPH ADDISONA good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
JOSEPH ADDISONThey were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
JOSEPH ADDISONAn evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
JOSEPH ADDISONCharity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONHonour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
JOSEPH ADDISON