Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#exercise #mind #reading

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. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#flowers #good #humanity #inconceivable #life

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#good #good life #life #living #reading

The great essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#life #purpose #life

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#contented #contented mind #enjoy #greatest #greatest blessing

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#love #pain #philosophical #equality

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#experience

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#nature

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#nature

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#hope #success #experience