Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
More Quotes from Joseph Addison:
The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.Joseph Addison
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.
Joseph Addison
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph Addison
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison
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