"There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty."
-Joseph Addison
BeautyView Quote
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.“
-Joseph Addison
posted in Courage
Other Quotes by Joseph Addison
Discover more inspiring quotes by 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
PatienceView Quote
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."
-Joseph Addison
MusicView Quote
"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
HappinessView Quote
"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
FriendshipView Quote
"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both."
-Joseph Addison
AgeView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao Tzu
CourageView Quote
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill
CourageView Quote
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
-e. e. cummings
CourageView Quote
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
-Anais Nin
CourageView Quote
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
-Maya Angelou
CourageView Quote
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
CourageView Quote