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Joseph Addison Quotes - Page 11

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The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

Joseph Addison (1764). “The Evidences of the Christian Religion: With Additional Discourses on the Following Subjects, Viz. Of God, and His Attributes, The Power and Wisdom of God in the Creation, The Providence of God, The Worship of God, Advantages of Revelation Above Natural Reason, Excellency of the Christian Institution, Dignity of the Scripture Language, Against Atheism and Infidelity, Against the Modern Free-thinkers, Immortality of the Soul, and a Future State, Death and Judgment”, p.131

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Army, Hiking, Justice

Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.

Men, Perfection, World

Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.329

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Clouds, Break Through, Serenity

'The Spectator' no. 381, 17 May 1712

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

People, Giving, Flying

Joseph Addison (1860). “The Tatler. The Guardian”, p.378

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

Men, Giving, Gossip

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.30

Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

Omnipotence, Justice, Perfection

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Nature, Anger, Evil

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “Remarks on Italy. The Tatler”, p.323

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

People, Months, England

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, William Bond (1766). “The Spectator”, p.310

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

Humanity, World, Bears

Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.322

It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.

Love, Passion, Soul

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.7

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

Discrimination, Satire, Should

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

Sweet, Love Is, Happy Marriage

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.324

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

Passing Away, Together, Cards

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.315

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Laughter, Soul, Mind

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.294

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

Coats, Fine, Higher

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.192

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.

Wise, Time, Passion

Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.266

The post of honour is a private station.

Literature, Honour, Posts

'Cato' (1713) act 4, sc. 1, l. 319

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Perfection, Ornaments, Charity

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.35

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Book, Legacy, Generations

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

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

Ocean, Noble, Immense

Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.105

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Marriage, Misery, Scene

Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.169

That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.

Passion, Eye, House

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Pride, Color, Doe

Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.250

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

Food, Cooking, Tea

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.372

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