Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Milston
Wiltshire
Joseph Addisson
Right Hon. Joseph Addison
Reader
Learning
Wholesomeness
Education
Literacy
Reading
Educational
Inspirational
Library
Body
Importance
Book
Meditation
Mind
Exercise
More quotes by Joseph Addison
Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear.
Joseph Addison
Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.
Joseph Addison
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Joseph Addison
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.
Joseph Addison
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
Joseph Addison
For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.
Joseph Addison
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
Joseph Addison
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
Joseph Addison
The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
Joseph Addison
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
Joseph Addison
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
Joseph Addison
A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.
Joseph Addison
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.
Joseph Addison
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
Joseph Addison
Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.
Joseph Addison
Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
Joseph Addison
Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.
Joseph Addison
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
Joseph Addison
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
Joseph Addison
There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.
Joseph Addison
