Quotes
Quotes - Addison
Should the whole frame of Nature round him break,
In ruin and confusion hurled,
He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,
And stand secure amidst a falling world.
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow,
Thou 'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow,
Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee,
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Much may be said on both sides.
The Lord my pasture shall prepare,
And feed me with a shepherd's care;
His presence shall my wants supply,
And guard me with a watchful eye.
Round-heads and wooden-shoes are standing jokes.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
Much might be said on both sides.
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
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.
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.
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.
