One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The grand essential to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and… — 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
It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind… — 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
Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain… — 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
The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In life we don't know how many Love's the Lord will send us, but we do know that one day he will… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope… — 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
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
