~ Joseph Addison Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

[MysteRy]

True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.

[MysteRy]

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.