“A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.”
Great
“A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.”
GreatAll Quotes by Joseph Addison
“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
Music“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”
Best“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”
Truth“To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.”
Faith“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”
Beauty“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”
Friendship“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”
Age“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.”
Great“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
Sympathy“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
Happiness“Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.”
Learning“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
Wedding“A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.”
Great“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.”
Hope“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
Legal“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”
Nature“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”
Music“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
Nature“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.”
Imagination