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Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
— Joseph Addison
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
— Joseph Addison
Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.
— Joseph Addison
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
— Joseph Addison
There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.
— Joseph Addison
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together. — Joseph Addison
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
— Joseph Addison
We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
— Joseph Addison
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
— Joseph Addison
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
— Joseph Addison
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
— Joseph Addison
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
— Joseph Addison
As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.
— Joseph Addison
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
— Joseph Addison
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
— Joseph Addison
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
— Joseph Addison
Oh! think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots, and their last fatal periods. — Joseph Addison
The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.
— Joseph Addison
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
— Joseph Addison
The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
— Joseph Addison
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
— Joseph Addison
Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
— Joseph Addison
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
— Joseph Addison
I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
— Joseph Addison
Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
— Joseph Addison
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
— Joseph Addison
Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
— Joseph Addison
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
— Joseph Addison
Look what a little vain dust we are!
— Joseph Addison
There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.
— Joseph Addison
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
— Joseph Addison
Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed.
— Joseph Addison
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
— Joseph Addison
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
— Joseph Addison
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
— Joseph Addison
We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.
— Joseph Addison
I am ... I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Joseph Addison
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
— Joseph Addison
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
— Joseph Addison
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
— Joseph Addison
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
— Joseph Addison
There is a great amity between designing and art.
— Joseph Addison
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
— Joseph Addison
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Caesar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
— Joseph Addison
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
— Joseph Addison
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
— Joseph Addison
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
— Joseph Addison
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
— Joseph Addison
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
— Joseph Addison
Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.
— Joseph Addison
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
— Joseph Addison
This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
— Joseph Addison
Jesters do often prove prophets.
— Joseph Addison
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
— Joseph Addison
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
— Joseph Addison
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
— Joseph Addison
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
— Joseph Addison
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
— Joseph Addison
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.
— Joseph Addison
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.
— Joseph Addison
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
— Joseph Addison
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
— Joseph Addison
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
— Joseph Addison
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.
— Joseph Addison
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
— Joseph Addison
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
— Joseph Addison
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
— Joseph Addison
I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.
— Joseph Addison
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
— Joseph Addison
True fortitude is seen in great exploitsThat justice warrants, and that wisdom guides;
And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction. — Joseph Addison
Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
— Joseph Addison
The ungrown glories of his beamy hair.
— Joseph Addison
A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.
— Joseph Addison
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.
— Joseph Addison
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
— Joseph Addison
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
— Joseph Addison
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
— Joseph Addison
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
— Joseph Addison
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
— Joseph Addison
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
— Joseph Addison
The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.
— Joseph Addison
A money-lenderhe serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future. — Joseph Addison
Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
— Joseph Addison
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
— Joseph Addison
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
— Joseph Addison
