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
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
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of… — 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
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — 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
The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they… — 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
Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman… — 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
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
