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
There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — 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
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion. — 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
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
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes. — 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
