There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our… — 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
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it, and when it is only a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness. — 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
