The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding. — 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
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
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing… — 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
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — 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
If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I… — 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
The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it… — 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
A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted… — 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
The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in… — 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
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or… — 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
Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes… — 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 consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,… — 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
