Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions… — 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
The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors; Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons… — 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
It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — 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 be showing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — 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 and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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 Image
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
