Joseph Addison Quotes & Quotations

Joseph Addison Quotes

» Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

» Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

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

» There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

» A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

» 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.

» 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.

» There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

» A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.

» 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.

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