Quotes by : Joseph Addison

If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing....

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt....

What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered....

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot....

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

... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their....

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the....

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths....