Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. Joseph Addison More Quotes by Joseph Addison More Quotes From Joseph Addison What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. Joseph Addison epitaphlostgiving Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them. Joseph Addison marriagehusbandgiving I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day. Joseph Addison moralitymayway A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. Joseph Addison sunshinenaturerain Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! Joseph Addison painlovelife One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. 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. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. Joseph Addison pridelyingson The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us. Joseph Addison childhoodgovernmentchildren It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour. Joseph Addison sportsmencountry The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least. Joseph Addison eyeselfordinary Health and happiness give rise to each other. Joseph Addison giving The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. Joseph Addison joydiscoverybeauty I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.' Joseph Addison literaturemenlife It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end. Joseph Addison good-intentionsmindaction With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. Joseph Addison prudentinspirationalpeople What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. Joseph Addison patriotismpatrioticcountry We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. Joseph Addison posterityliterature In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced of the truth of it, as a mathematical demonstration, before I would venture to act upon it or make it a part of my religion. Joseph Addison risingwould-bemen To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. Joseph Addison successhappinessmen The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. Joseph Addison mindculturelying It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme. Joseph Addison follysupremegod
