Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,… — 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
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs. — 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
