#josephaddison — Public Fediverse posts

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

~ Joseph Addison, born today, 1672.

#JosephAddison #Quote #Today

A quotation from Joseph Addison

When Men are easy in their Circumstances, they are naturally Enemies to Innovations.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1716-05-16), The Freeholder, No. 42

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83076…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #circumstance #comfort #conservative #ease #statusquo #situation #satisfaction

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82734…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #education #excellence #knowledge #learning #superiority

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82734…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #education #excellence #knowledge #learning #superiority

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82734…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #education #excellence #knowledge #learning #superiority

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82734…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #education #excellence #knowledge #learning #superiority

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82734…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #education #excellence #knowledge #learning #superiority

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82602…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #bias #blindjustice #equity #justice #prejudice

A quotation from Addison

When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, we may venture to pronounce that such a nation is hastening to its ruin.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82451…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #corruption #decline #influence #injustice #judge #judicialsystem #judiciary #justice #legalsystem #ruin

A quotation from Addison

When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, we may venture to pronounce that such a nation is hastening to its ruin.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82451…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #corruption #decline #influence #injustice #judge #judicialsystem #judiciary #justice #legalsystem #ruin

A quotation from Addison

When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, we may venture to pronounce that such a nation is hastening to its ruin.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82451…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #corruption #decline #influence #injustice #judge #judicialsystem #judiciary #justice #legalsystem #ruin

A quotation from Addison

When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, we may venture to pronounce that such a nation is hastening to its ruin.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82451…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #corruption #decline #influence #injustice #judge #judicialsystem #judiciary #justice #legalsystem #ruin

A quotation from Addison

When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, we may venture to pronounce that such a nation is hastening to its ruin.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82451…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #corruption #decline #influence #injustice #judge #judicialsystem #judiciary #justice #legalsystem #ruin

A quotation from Joseph Addison

LUCIUS: From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
   What dire effects from civil discord flow.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 106ff (1713)

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82267…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #civildiscord #civilwar #discord #disunity #internecinewarfare #strife

A quotation from Joseph Addison

LUCIUS: From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
   What dire effects from civil discord flow.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 106ff (1713)

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82267…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #civildiscord #civilwar #discord #disunity #internecinewarfare #strife

A quotation from Joseph Addison

LUCIUS: From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
   What dire effects from civil discord flow.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 106ff (1713)

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82267…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #civildiscord #civilwar #discord #disunity #internecinewarfare #strife

A quotation from Joseph Addison

LUCIUS: From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
   What dire effects from civil discord flow.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 106ff (1713)

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82267…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #civildiscord #civilwar #discord #disunity #internecinewarfare #strife

A quotation from Joseph Addison

CATO: Forbear, Sempronius! — see they suffer death,
   But in their deaths remember they are men.
   Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 60ff (1713)

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82136…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #addison #capitalpunishment #death #deathpenalty #punishment #torture

A quotation from Joseph Addison

MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse,
   Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav’n
   Red with uncommon wrath to blast the man,
   Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin?

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 20ff (1713)

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81926…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #addison #divineretribution #divinewrath #fame #greatness #patriotism #revolution

A quotation from Joseph Addison

MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse,
   Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav’n
   Red with uncommon wrath to blast the man,
   Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin?

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 20ff (1713)

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81926…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #addison #divineretribution #divinewrath #fame #greatness #patriotism #revolution

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Musick, the greatest Good that Mortals know,
And all of Heav’n we have below.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Poem (1694), “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, at Oxford,” st. 3

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/15980…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #cecilia #stcecilia #saintcecilia #blessing #heaven #music #song

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81313…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #cleverness #cunning #discretion #prudence #wisdom

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81313…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #cleverness #cunning #discretion #prudence #wisdom

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81187…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #circumspection #diplomacy #discretion #gettingalong #judgment #prudence #subtlety #tact #talent #timing #success

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81187…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #circumspection #diplomacy #discretion #gettingalong #judgment #prudence #subtlety #tact #talent #timing #success

A quotation from Joseph Addison

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81055…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #appropriateness #discretion #judgment #propriety #timing #virtues

A quotation from Joseph Addison

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81055…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #appropriateness #discretion #judgment #propriety #timing #virtues

A quotation from Joseph Addison

I have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80953…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #blurting #chatter #consideration #conversation #discretion #fool #minds #selfcensorship #selfcontrol #selfrestraint #streamofconsciousness #thoughts #wisdom

A quotation from Joseph Addison

I have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80953…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #blurting #chatter #consideration #conversation #discretion #fool #minds #selfcensorship #selfcontrol #selfrestraint #streamofconsciousness #thoughts #wisdom

A quotation from Joseph Addison

As exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue which we gather from a fable, or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1709-03-18), The Tatler, No. 147

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80785…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #books #drudgery #duty #engagement #entertainment #reading #selfimprovement #enjoyment

A quotation from Joseph Addison

As exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue which we gather from a fable, or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1709-03-18), The Tatler, No. 147

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80785…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #books #drudgery #duty #engagement #entertainment #reading #selfimprovement #enjoyment

A quotation from Addison

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #goodnature #innocence #knowledge #meme #temper #temperament #wit #women

A quotation from Addison

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #goodnature #innocence #knowledge #meme #temper #temperament #wit #women

A quotation from Addison

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #goodnature #innocence #knowledge #meme #temper #temperament #wit #women

A quotation from Addison

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #goodnature #innocence #knowledge #meme #temper #temperament #wit #women

A quotation from Joseph Addison

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-03-30), “Thoughts in Westminster Abbey,” The Spectator, No. 26

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/6042/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #death #grave #grief #meaningoflife #memorial #mortality #perspective #tomb

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Upon my going into the church, I entertained myself with the digging of a grave; and saw in every shovelful of it that was thrown up, the fragment of a bone or skull intermixt with a kind of fresh mouldering earth, that some time or other had a place in the composition of a human body. Upon this, I began to consider with myself what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathedral; how men and women, friends and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness and deformity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-03-30), “Thoughts in Westminster Abbey,” The Spectator, No. 26

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80244…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #burial #cemetery #death #grave #humancondition #humanity

A quotation from Joseph Addison

When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-03-30), “Thoughts in Westminster Abbey,” The Spectator, No. 26

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/6138/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #death #history #humanity #lastjudgment #mortality #perspective #time

A quotation from Joseph Addison

I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another: the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born and that they died. They put me in mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems, who have sounding names given them, for no other reason but that they may be killed, and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-03-30), “Thoughts in Westminster Abbey,” The Spectator, No. 26

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80135…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #graveyard #cemetery #birth #death #impact #legacy #meaningoflife #memorial #obscurity #remembrance #tombstone #history

A quotation from Joseph Addison

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-09-06), The Spectator, No. 477

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80013…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #birds #birdsong #blackbirds #cherries #fruit #garden #nature

A quotation from 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 (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-05-18), The Spectator, No. 68

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/79835…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #character #friendship #gettingalong #partnership #personality #relationship

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Upon the whole, a contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1714-07-30), The Spectator, No. 574

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/79644…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #blessing #contentment #serenity #wellbeing

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-08-02), The Spectator, No. 447

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/79514…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #GetUsedToIt #art #custom #diversion #entertainment #fun #practice #science #study #work

A quotation from Joseph Addison

The Lord my pasture shall prepare,
And feed me with a shepherd’s care;
His presence shall my wants supply,
And guard me with a watchful eye.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Poem (1712-07-26), “Psalm 23,” st. 1, ll. 1-4, The Spectator, No. 441

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/79376…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #divinefavor #divinemercy #God #guardian #protection #psalm #psalm23 #providence

A quotation from Joseph Addison

The Lord my pasture shall prepare,
And feed me with a shepherd’s care;
His presence shall my wants supply,
And guard me with a watchful eye.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Poem (1712-07-26), “Psalm 23,” st. 1, ll. 1-4, The Spectator, No. 441

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/79376…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #divinefavor #divinemercy #God #guardian #protection #psalm #psalm23 #providence

A quotation from Joseph Addison

The Lord my pasture shall prepare,
And feed me with a shepherd’s care;
His presence shall my wants supply,
And guard me with a watchful eye.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Poem (1712-07-26), “Psalm 23,” st. 1, ll. 1-4, The Spectator, No. 441

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/79376…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #divinefavor #divinemercy #God #guardian #protection #psalm #psalm23 #providence

A quotation from Joseph Addison

The Lord my pasture shall prepare,
And feed me with a shepherd’s care;
His presence shall my wants supply,
And guard me with a watchful eye.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Poem (1712-07-26), “Psalm 23,” st. 1, ll. 1-4, The Spectator, No. 441

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/79376…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #divinefavor #divinemercy #God #guardian #protection #psalm #psalm23 #providence

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness is, in the first place, the best promoter of health. Repinings, and secret murmurs of heart, give imperceptible strokes to those delicate fibres of which the vital parts are composed, and wear out the machine insensibly; not to mention those violent ferments which they stir up in the blood, and those irregular disturbed motions which they raise in the animal spirits.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-05-24), The Spectator, No. 387

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/79194…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #cheer #cheerfulness #emotionalhealth #goodattitude #goodcheer #goodmood #health #healthiness #healthyliving #mindbody #positiveattitude

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness is, in the first place, the best promoter of health. Repinings, and secret murmurs of heart, give imperceptible strokes to those delicate fibres of which the vital parts are composed, and wear out the machine insensibly; not to mention those violent ferments which they stir up in the blood, and those irregular disturbed motions which they raise in the animal spirits.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-05-24), The Spectator, No. 387

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/79194…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #cheer #cheerfulness #emotionalhealth #goodattitude #goodcheer #goodmood #health #healthiness #healthyliving #mindbody #positiveattitude

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness is, in the first place, the best promoter of health. Repinings, and secret murmurs of heart, give imperceptible strokes to those delicate fibres of which the vital parts are composed, and wear out the machine insensibly; not to mention those violent ferments which they stir up in the blood, and those irregular disturbed motions which they raise in the animal spirits.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-05-24), The Spectator, No. 387

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/79194…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #cheer #cheerfulness #emotionalhealth #goodattitude #goodcheer #goodmood #health #healthiness #healthyliving #mindbody #positiveattitude