"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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5/4/11

JOSEPH ADDISON. Quotes


"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world." ~Joseph Addison

"A friendship which makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one." ~Joseph Addison

“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.” ~Joseph Addison 

"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life." ~Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

"Charity is a virtue of the heart. Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue." ~Joseph Addison

"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." ~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 on Honor

"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

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by doubling our joy and dividing our grief." ~Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

"Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other." ~Joseph Addison, Essayist, born 1672

"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 (1672 - 1719)

"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." ~Joseph Addison

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." ~Joseph Addison

"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week." ~Joseph Addison

“There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.” ~Joseph Addison on Country

"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty." ~Joseph Addison

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." ~Joseph Addison

"True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation." ~Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

“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.” ~Joseph Addison

“We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.” ~Joseph Addison on Stupidity

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity." ~Joseph Addison

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