Joseph Addison Quotes about Exercise

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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

Joseph Addison

Book, Reading, Exercise

Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1785). “The Tatler: Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.371

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

Joseph Addison

Art, Exercise, Science

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.371

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

Joseph Addison

Health, Exercise, Substitutes

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

Joseph Addison

Thank You, Gratitude, Exercise

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

Joseph Addison

Humility, Exercise, Greatness

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

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

Life, Exercise, Ideas

Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.

Joseph Addison

Children, Father, Exercise

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.187