Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have… — 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
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take… — 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
The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall… — 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
