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
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins… — 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 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
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and… — 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
There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring… — 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
