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  • The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

    Men  
    Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.125
  • I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

    Joseph Addison, Alexander Chalmers, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Tatler”, p.105
  • There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.310
  • A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

    Fool  
    "Selectons from Steele's Contributions to the Tatler".
  • How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.136
  • I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.

  • The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

    Men  
    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.62
  • A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

  • A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

    Men  
    Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.325
  • Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

    Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1822). “The Guardian”, p.116
  • Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Guardian: With a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Preface by the Rev. Rob. Lynam”, p.63
  • No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.104
  • Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

  • The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

    Men  
    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.429
  • The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1841). “The Spectator: with sketches of the lives of the authors, an index, and explanatory notes”
  • People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

  • It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

    Men  
    Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.321
  • Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

    Men  
    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.164
  • One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

    Men  
    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.93
  • There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

    'The Spectator' no. 263 (1 January 1712)
  • Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

  • There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

    Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1797). “The Spectator”, p.23
  • A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

    Men  
    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Guardian: With a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Preface by the Rev. Rob. Lynam”, p.94
  • Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

    Men  
  • I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

    Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1710). “The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.302
  • Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.186
  • Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

    'The Spectator' no. 266 (4 January 1712)
  • A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

  • The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

    Men  
    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.244
  • A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

    Fool  
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