Joseph Addison Quotes on Nature (13 Quotes)

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.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise

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

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.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

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

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

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

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

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.