Vices Quotes by Joseph Addison

8 Vices quotes by Joseph Addison

Addison’s graceful commentary on human shortcomings appears in these eight concise passages. Their measured tone makes the insight both accessible and pleasant.

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We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got…

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We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately…

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If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for…

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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

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Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At…

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When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn…

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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

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There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

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Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing…

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As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

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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…

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When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

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Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

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The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief…

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts;…

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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

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