The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less. — 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
It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men… — 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
Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the… — 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
Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order… — 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
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
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing… — 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… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not!… — 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
The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if… — 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… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly,… — 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… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall… — 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
