Joseph Addison Quotes about Nature

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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.

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

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

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Joseph Addison

Nature, Doe, Purpose

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

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

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

Joseph Addison

Nature, Simple, Delight

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

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

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.

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

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

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