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There are 94 quotes for the author Joseph Addison

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Subject: Success

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Subject: Happiness

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Subject: Arrogance

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty

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.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

It 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.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

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