Best Quotes by Joseph Addison (Top 10)

  1. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
  2. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
  3. Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
  4. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
  5. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
  6. If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
  7. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
  8. Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
  9. There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
  10. Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

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