Joseph Addison Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Nature, Exercise

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.367

• We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Nature, Pleasant

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.348

• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Nature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.191

• There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Fall, Animal

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.460

• A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Anger, Evil

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “Remarks on Italy. The Tatler”, p.323

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

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1796). “The Spectator”, p.311

• 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, Fall, Confusion

  Translation of Horace Odes bk. 3, ode 3.

• There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

  Joseph Addison

  Fashion, Nature, Dresses

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.378

• Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Weakness, Literature

  Joseph Addison (1828). “A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian, for the use of young persons, by E. Berens”, p.40

• 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

  Nature, Miracle, Quality

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: Selections from the Tatler. Selections from the Spectator [no.5-150”, p.106

• If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Delight, Cry

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.497

• Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Simple, Delight

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1753). “The Spectator”, p.105

• Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Doe, Purpose

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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