A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind. — 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
