Joseph Addison Quotes About Contentment

Quotes about: Contentment

• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

  Joseph Addison

  Blessed, Blessing, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.300

• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Blessing, Men, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator. The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of augmentation, considered. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder”, p.120

• Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

  Joseph Addison

  Alchemist, Desire, Contentment

  Joseph Addison (1857). “Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.162

• The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.

  Joseph Addison

  Disappointment, Grief, Contentment

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.4

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