Joseph Addison Sight Quotations

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves