Joseph Addison ( 10 of 139 )
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, read more
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as read more
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable read more
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed read more
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
