Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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
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
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie. — 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
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary… — 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
