Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it… — 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
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make… — 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
