The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISONNo oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
JOSEPH ADDISONSoon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
JOSEPH ADDISONThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
JOSEPH ADDISONPedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISONMusic, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
JOSEPH ADDISONCourage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
JOSEPH ADDISONWit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
JOSEPH ADDISONWords, 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 ADDISONMankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
JOSEPH ADDISON