All Joseph Addison Quotes
- Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Destruction
- Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. Carefully
- A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. Draws
- An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with… Abandoned
- Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last… Applause
- Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. All
- Colors speak all languages. All
- Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. From
- A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Bondage
- All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter All
- Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them. Cherish
- Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and… Admiration
- Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. Argument
- It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or… Age
- When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours… Advantageously
- The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in… Act
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens… Accompanies
- Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. Exercise
- Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse. Beats
- Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in… Action
- See in what peace a Christian can die. Christian
- Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the… Aim
- The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. Confederacies
- If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue. All
- Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Delight