01c. 1695 ADTo be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
02c. 1695 ADMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
03c. 1695 ADMutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
04c. 1695 ADMen may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
05c. 1695 ADThe utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
06c. 1695 ADCourage 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 / quote ↗
07c. 1695 ADA cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
08c. 1695 ADI will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
09c. 1695 ADTo be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
10c. 1695 ADI value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
11c. 1695 ADEverything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
12c. 1695 ADThe greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
13c. 1695 ADWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
15c. 1695 ADAnimals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
16c. 1695 ADNo oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
17c. 1695 ADA woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.Joseph Addison / quote ↗
