Joseph Addison Quotes About Suffering

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  • Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

  • There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings.

    "The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation".
  • A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

    Joseph Addison (1764). “The Evidences of the Christian Religion: With Additional Discourses on the Following Subjects, Viz. Of God, and His Attributes, The Power and Wisdom of God in the Creation, The Providence of God, The Worship of God, Advantages of Revelation Above Natural Reason, Excellency of the Christian Institution, Dignity of the Scripture Language, Against Atheism and Infidelity, Against the Modern Free-thinkers, Immortality of the Soul, and a Future State, Death and Judgment”, p.227
  • I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

    Joseph Addison (1804). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.457
  • A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

    Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.175
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