Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — 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
“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.” — 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
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
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
“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
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
Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The grand essential to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for… — 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
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that… — 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
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
