3 December 2020 Joseph Addison There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
3 December 2020 Joseph 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.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
3 December 2020 Joseph 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.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
3 December 2020 Joseph 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.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
