This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. — Joseph Addison Copy Share
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison Copy Share
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison Copy Share
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. — Joseph Addison Copy Share
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share
The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief… — Joseph Addison Copy Share
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts;… — Joseph Addison Copy Share
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. — Joseph Addison Copy Share
