Joseph Addison Quotes - Page 19

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• A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Gold, Fortune, Disposition

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• The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Men, Honor

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Specator, no. 507-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of an augmentation, considered. The Whig-examiner. The Free-holder. Of the Christian religion”, p.253

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• I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.

  Joseph Addison

  Faith, Atheist, Religion

  The Spectator, No. 185, October 2, 1711.

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• Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

  Joseph Addison

  Humble, Humility, People

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• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Admiration And Respect, Decay

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1778). “The Spectator”, p.26

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

  Joseph Addison

  Conceited, Men, Talking

  Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.35

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• Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Friends, Wonder

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.59

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• To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Religion, Facts

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• Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

  Joseph Addison

  Confidence, Awkward, Literature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.46

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• Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Long, Literature

  Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.43

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• Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
  And all of heaven we have below.
  Music can noble hints impart,
  Engender fury, kindle love;
  40 With unsuspected eloquence can move,
  And manage all the man with secret art.
  When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre
  The streams stand still, the stones admire;
  The listening savages advance,
  The world and lamb around him trip
  The bears in aukward measures leap,
  And tigers mingle in the dance
  The moving woods attended as he played
  And Rhodope was left without a shade.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Moving

  Joseph Addison, “A Song For St. CeCILIa's Day, At Oxford”

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• My voice is still for war.

  Joseph Addison

  War, Voice, Stills

  Joseph Addison, James WILD (Dramatist.) (1779). “Cato; a tragedy ... As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Regulated from the prompt-book ... by Mr. Wild. (Bell's edition.).”, p.29

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• From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

  Joseph Addison

  War, Flow, Fierce

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, closing lines

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• It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

  Joseph Addison

  Greatness, Age, Matter

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.425

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• Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Attitude, Fire

  "Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition".

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• Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Play, Echoes

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Letters. Second appendix, containing miscellanies and gleanings. Translations of Addison's Latin poems. Addison's Latin prose. Official documents. Addisoniana. General index”, p.535

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• I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.

  Joseph Addison

  Christian, May, Dies

  Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan (1859). “The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison, Gay's Fables, and Somerville's Chase: With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations”, p.29

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• There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Mirth, Innocence

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.282

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• There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Men, Mind

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• Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Soul, Littles

  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.621

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• The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

  Joseph Addison

  Clouds, Numbers, Jew

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• The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

  Joseph Addison

  Sleep, Pride, Gone

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• Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Passion, Thinking

  Joseph Addison (1827). “The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation”, p.92

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• With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Perfection, Soul

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• In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

  Joseph Addison

  Wise, Running, Wisdom

  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.191

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