Joseph Addison Quotes about Beauty

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Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Joseph Addison

Beauty, Kindness, Absence

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.402

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Joseph Addison

Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Joseph Addison

Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1765). “Rosamond. Cato. The drummer, or The haunted house. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-Examiner. The lover”, p.80