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Joseph Addison Quotes - Page 13

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A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

Humility, Exercise, Greatness

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

Men, Good Man, Titles

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.178

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

Courage, Hero, Men

Joseph Addison (1808). “The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.38

In rising sighs and falling tears.

Grief, Fall, Tears

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.386

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Generous Spirit, Despair, Cows

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.

Eye, Drawing, Forever

Joseph Addison (1812). “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.251

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

Hope, Religious, Mind

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.227

Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.

Passion, Eye, Men

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.114

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.390

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

Silly, Opportunity, Men

Joseph Addison (2010). “Addison's Essays”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

May, Action, Notoriety

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.279

It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

Queens, Taken, Letters

'The Spectator' no. 221, 13 November 1711.

Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

Dream, Future, Men

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.463

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

Beauty, Discovery, Joy

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.273

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

Hope, Men, Long

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.19

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

Life, Choices, Causes

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.473

Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.

Music, Art, Plato

Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.65

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

Crush, Fear, Men

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

Men, Enemy, Virtue

Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.441

There is a great amity between designing and art.

Art, Design, Amity

Nothing makes men sharper than want.

Men, Want

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Humility, Pride, Men

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.301

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Love, Heart, Mouths

Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.22

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

Plato, Reason, Wells

'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

Time, Lying, Hands

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