Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. Joseph Addison More Quotes by Joseph Addison More Quotes From Joseph Addison Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit. Joseph Addison holidaymenfirsts It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal. Joseph Addison spleenconcernnotorious Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. Joseph Addison incitementpityhumanity There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning. Joseph Addison practiceagenames The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action. Joseph Addison honorreligiousmen Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. Joseph Addison distancetiredsight Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair. Joseph Addison generous-spiritdespaircows Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities. Joseph Addison sillyopportunitymen The ungrown glories of his beamy hair. Joseph Addison gloryhair The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it. Joseph Addison nexthalfworld Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. Joseph Addison talentreasondiscovery There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments. Joseph Addison winemindmen Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. Joseph Addison winesoullittles The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible. Joseph Addison jewcloudsnumbers The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail. Joseph Addison mayanimalmemories But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them. Joseph Addison advantagesilencegiving A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. Joseph Addison serenityhealthsoul Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser. Joseph Addison ingenuitymankindfavors An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes. Joseph Addison wishmenenemy Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies. Joseph Addison hatemenenemy
