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
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it, and when it is only a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm. — 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
