Joseph Addison Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.”

“Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.”

“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.”

“Everything 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.”

“Men 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.”

“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”

“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.”

“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.”

“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.”

“We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.”