A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature uses extraordinarily ingenious techniques to avoid conflict and competition, and that cooperation is extraordinarily widespread throughout all of nature — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double… — 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
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in… — 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
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the… — 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
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
