Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. – Joseph Addison
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. – Joseph Addison
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a ladys head-dress. – Joseph Addison
The utmost extent of mans knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. – Joseph Addison
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison
Animals, 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
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. – Joseph Addison
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. – Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. – Joseph Addison
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. – Joseph Addison
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. – Joseph Addison
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – Joseph Addison
To 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
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. – Joseph Addison
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. – Joseph Addison
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. – Joseph Addison
Man 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
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. – Joseph Addison
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. – Joseph Addison
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. – Joseph Addison
