A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.


Joseph Addison

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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures a...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou sha...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if na...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell abou...
JOSEPH ADDISON
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle...
JOSEPH ADDISON
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fru...
JOSEPH ADDISON
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot r...
JOSEPH ADDISON
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...
JOSEPH ADDISON
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, fr...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
JOSEPH ADDISON
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON