110+ Joseph Addison Quotes On Education, Satirical And Refined

Joseph Addison was an 18th-century English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He is best known for his periodical essays in The Spectator and for the comic play The Drummer. He was also a co-founder of the Whig party and Secretary of State for the Southern Department in Queen Anne's government. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Joseph Addison on education, satirical, refined.

Top 10 Joseph Addison Quotes

1. The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
2. 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.
3. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
4. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
5. 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.
6. I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
7. 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.
8. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
9. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
10. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison Image Quotes

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. — Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. — Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison Short Quotes

• A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
• No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
• Jesters do often prove prophets.
• T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
• Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
• Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.
• A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
• There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
• Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

Joseph Addison Quotes About Education

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it. — Joseph Addison

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. — Joseph Addison

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education. — Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. — Joseph Addison

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude. — Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. — Joseph Addison

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species. — Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison Quotes About Satirical

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. — Joseph Addison

Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written. — Joseph Addison

Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself. — Joseph Addison

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it. — Joseph Addison

Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear. — Joseph Addison

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable. — Joseph Addison

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another. — Joseph Addison

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write. — Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison Quotes About Life

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. — Joseph Addison

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee. — Joseph Addison

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor. — Joseph Addison

The 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

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse. — Joseph Addison

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend. — Joseph Addison

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. — Joseph Addison

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions. — Joseph Addison

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit. — Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison Quotes About Nature

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. — Joseph Addison

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking. — Joseph Addison

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. — Joseph Addison

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite. — 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

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. — Joseph Addison

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone. — Joseph Addison

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. — Joseph Addison

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. — 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

Joseph Addison Quotes About Mind

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind. — Joseph Addison

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. — Joseph Addison

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. — Joseph Addison

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance — Joseph Addison

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. — Joseph Addison

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end. — Joseph Addison

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Joseph Addison

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master. — Joseph Addison

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. — Joseph Addison

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. — Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison Quotes About Happiness

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. — Joseph Addison

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter — Joseph Addison

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. — Joseph Addison

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. — Joseph Addison

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest. — Joseph Addison

By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more. — Joseph Addison

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them. — Joseph Addison

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness. — Joseph Addison

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life. — Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison Quotes About Virtue

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — Joseph Addison

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! — 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

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. — Joseph Addison

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. — Joseph Addison

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. — Joseph Addison

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. — Joseph Addison

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality. — Joseph Addison

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. — Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison Famous Quotes And Sayings

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. — Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. — Joseph Addison

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination. — Joseph Addison

Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel. — Joseph Addison

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. — Joseph Addison

The spacious firmament on high, And all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. — 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

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. — Joseph Addison

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. — Joseph Addison

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. — Joseph Addison

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party — Joseph Addison

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. — Joseph Addison

Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it. — Joseph Addison

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise. — Joseph Addison

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation. — Joseph Addison

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. — Joseph Addison

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. — Joseph Addison

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. — Joseph Addison

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. — Joseph Addison

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison

A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die. — Joseph Addison

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species. — Joseph Addison

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him. — Joseph Addison

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. — Joseph Addison

See in what peace a Christian can die. — Joseph Addison

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. — Joseph Addison

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. — Joseph Addison

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit. — Joseph Addison

Colors speak all languages. — Joseph Addison

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. — Joseph Addison

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. — Joseph Addison

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants... — Joseph Addison

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. — Joseph Addison

Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest. — Joseph Addison

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations. — Joseph Addison

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. — Joseph Addison

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Joseph Addison

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. — Joseph Addison

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least. — Joseph Addison

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. — Joseph Addison

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. — Joseph Addison

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. — Joseph Addison

We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull. — Joseph Addison

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. — Joseph Addison

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. — Joseph Addison

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust. — Joseph Addison

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. — Joseph Addison

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments. — Joseph Addison

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins. — Joseph Addison

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. — Joseph Addison

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. — Joseph Addison

All of heaven we have below. — Joseph Addison

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives. — Joseph Addison

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. — Joseph Addison

Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire. — Joseph Addison

Life Lessons by Joseph Addison

1. Joseph Addison taught that life should be lived with purpose and intention, and that it is important to take time to appreciate the beauty of the world around us.
2. He also believed that it is essential to be honest and true to oneself, and that it is important to strive for excellence in all that we do.
3. Finally, Addison encouraged us to be generous and kind to others, and to always strive to make the world a better place.