In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices,… — 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… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in… — 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
It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order… — 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
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
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
Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — 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
It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,… — 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
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
