Joseph Addison

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience read more

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon read more

Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in read more

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.

Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of read more

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.