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
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. — 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
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise. — 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… — 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
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
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
Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed… — 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
It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her,… — 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
Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a… — 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
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
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
A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself;… — 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
