“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”
Music
“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”
NatureAll Quotes by Joseph Addison
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”
Education“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”
Death“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.”
Courage“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.”
Age“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
Legal“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”
Nature“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”
Beauty“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
Nature“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.”
Power“Our 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 their proper figures.”
Patience“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
Music“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
Sympathy“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
Experience“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
Wedding“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”
Life“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”
Nature“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“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“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.”
Friendship