A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design… — 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
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. — 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
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a… — 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
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — 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
