Quote

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

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
Usually
Produces
Effects
Contentment
Produce
Calls
Bring
Riches
Desire
Stone
Doe
Philosopher
Banishing
Thing
Measure
Ascribes
Stones
Alchemist

More quotes by Joseph Addison

Image
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
Joseph Addison
Image
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison
Image
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
Joseph Addison
Image
The time never lies heavy upon him it is impossible for him to be alone.
Joseph Addison
Image
Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this in particular, that by the reproaches which it casts upon us, we see the worst side of ourselves.
Joseph Addison
Image
When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Joseph Addison
Image
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
Joseph Addison
Image
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Joseph Addison
Image
Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.
Joseph Addison
Image
T is the Divinity that stirs within us.
Joseph Addison
Image
A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.
Joseph Addison
Image
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
Joseph Addison
Image
Poverty palls the most generous spirits it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
Joseph Addison
Image
There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.
Joseph Addison
Image
Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.
Joseph Addison
Image
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison
Image
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Joseph Addison
Image
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
Joseph Addison
Image
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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