Joseph Addison Quotes - Page 16

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• A thousand glorious actions that might claim
  Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame,
  Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie,
  And troops of heroes undistinguished die.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, War, Hero

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.189

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• An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Honest, Sober

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.160

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• The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

  Joseph Addison

  Death, People, Dying

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.458

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

  Joseph Addison

  Sight, Aggravation, Parent

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• Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

  Joseph Addison

  Play, Long, Dating

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.246

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• A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Men, Reputation

  "The Spectator: with notes and illustrations".

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• An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Power, Men

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.88

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• A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Heart, Men

  "Addison's Essays".

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• Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

  Joseph Addison

  Health, Exercise, Science

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.64

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• See in what peace a Christian can die.

  Joseph Addison

  Death, Christian, Peace

  Dying words to his stepson Lord Warwick, in Edward Young 'Conjectures on Original Composition' (1759)

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• If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Delight, Cry

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.497

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• The spacious firmament on high,
  And all the blue ethereal sky,
  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
  Their great Original proclaim.

  Joseph Addison

  Blue, Sky, Shining

  'The Spectator' no. 465, 23 August 1712, 'Ode'

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• A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

  Joseph Addison

  Jealous, Men, Envy

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1753). “The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads”, p.199

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• There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Fall, Animal

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.460

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• From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Exercise, Ideas

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• It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Laughter, Men

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• I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

  Joseph Addison

  Speech, Nine, Pounds

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Perfect, Tragedy, Human Nature

  1711 In The Spectator, no.39.

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• A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, World, Messages

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.120

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• Health and happiness give rise to each other.

  Joseph Addison

  Giving

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• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Legacy, Genius

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.216

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• Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,
  And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

  Joseph Addison

  Complaining, Pompey, Shade

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• 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

  Secret, Divinity, Causes

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.182

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• The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Men, Littles

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.147

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• The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Numbers, Giving, Advantage

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.44

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