Joseph Addison Quotes

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.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.