Art of life Quote by Joseph Addison

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

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

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Joseph Addison

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

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

— Joseph Addison

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

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

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Joseph Addison