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Top 400 Joseph Addison Quotes (2025 Update)
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Joseph Addison Quote: “If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A brother’s sufferings claim a brother’s pity.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “For wheresoe’er I turn my ravish’d eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “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 Addison Quote: “There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Troops of heroes undistinguished die.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “An empty desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “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 Quote: “Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making...”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “In 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 Addison Quote: “There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.”
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