“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”
Nature
“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
“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
Sympathy“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“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“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“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“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“The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.”
Knowledge“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.”
Happiness“To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.”
Nature“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”
Education“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“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”
Truth“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”
Nature“A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.”
Great“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
Legal“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“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“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”
Death“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.”
Power