What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the… — 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
To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes… — 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
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor… — 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
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of… — 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
