Quote

Nature is full of wonders every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

Joseph Addison

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Full
Atom
Wonder
Wonders
Wisdom
Atoms
Quality
Impressed
Less
Qualities
Nature
Miracle
Power
Infinite
Every
Standing
Endowed

More quotes by Joseph Addison

Image
It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.
Joseph Addison
Image
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.
Joseph Addison
Image
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
Joseph Addison
Image
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
Joseph Addison
Image
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison
Image
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
Joseph Addison
Image
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
Joseph Addison
Image
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Joseph Addison
Image
Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.
Joseph Addison
Image
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
Joseph Addison
Image
Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
Joseph Addison
Image
An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.
Joseph Addison
Image
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.
Joseph Addison
Image
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
Joseph Addison
Image
Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
Joseph Addison
Image
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
Joseph Addison
Image
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Joseph Addison
Image
A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness.
Joseph Addison
Image
A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.
Joseph Addison
Image
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
Joseph Addison