There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISONRides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISONI shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONMen may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISONWomen were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISONHonor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
JOSEPH ADDISONThey were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
JOSEPH ADDISON