01c. 1695 ADGod discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
02c. 1695 ADMusic can noble hints impart, engender fury, kindle love, with unsuspected eloquence can move and manage all the man with secret art.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
03c. 1695 ADThe advice given by a great moralist to his friend was, that he should compose his passions; and let that be the work of reason which would certainly be the work of time.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
04c. 1695 ADConceits arising from the use of words that agree in sound but differ in sense.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
05c. 1695 ADTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
06c. 1695 ADVirtues that shun the day and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calm of life.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
08c. 1695 ADWe all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of TimeJoseph Addison / quote ↗
09c. 1695 ADWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
10c. 1695 ADIf you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
11c. 1695 ADJealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
12c. 1695 ADThere is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
13c. 1695 ADThe ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
14c. 1695 ADThere is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
15c. 1695 ADWhat an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
16c. 1695 AD... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
17c. 1695 ADCertain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
18c. 1695 ADOur 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 proper figures.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
19c. 1695 ADA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
20c. 1695 ADA misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
21c. 1695 ADAdmiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
