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
Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to… — 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
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double… — 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
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature uses extraordinarily ingenious techniques to avoid conflict and competition, and that cooperation is extraordinarily widespread throughout all of nature — 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
