Joseph Addison

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#bashfulness #mere #merit #without

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#guard #modesty #only #ornament #virtue

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#good #greatest #hear #heaven #know

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#heavy #inflicted #lasting #legal #oppression

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#capable #music #nonsense #nothing #set

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#gratifying #man #mind #more #nothing

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#good #great #grow #laughter #life

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#only #others #prosperity #seen #some

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#else #friend #nothing #talking #thinking

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cruel #delights #father #make #man