Joseph Addison Quotes and SayingsJoseph Addison The Spectator, July 12, 1711 |
| Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. ~Joseph Addison Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. ~Joseph Addison If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. ~Joseph Addison A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ~Joseph Addison Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. ~Joseph Addison 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 Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. ~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 |