Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone. — 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
