An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — 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
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or… — 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
