Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
More Quotes from Joseph Addison:
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
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Joseph Addison
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Joseph Addison
It must be so, Plato, thou reasonest well Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction 'T is the divinity that stirs within us 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
Joseph Addison
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
This Mr Dryden calls the fairy way of writing'.
Joseph Addison
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Age Quotes, Insult Quotes, Youth QuotesI am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms... my entire body is hairless.
Kim Kardashian
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
Richard Thompson
We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
Wilma Mankiller