The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and?there ismore beauty… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge,… — 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
The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not… — 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
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
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. — 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
