Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave… — 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
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would… — 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
