Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the… — 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
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man. — 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
Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian… — 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
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not!… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves. — 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
Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving… — 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
