Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries? — 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
