The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving… — 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
Through all eternity to thee, a joyful song I'll raise; for oh! Eternity's too short to utter all thy praise. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — 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
