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Joseph Addison Quotes - Page 14

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A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

Sympathy, Brother, Suffering

Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.175

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Complacency, Equal, Inferiors

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.498

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

Destiny, Life And Death, Antidote

Henry Jones, Nicholas Rowe, Joseph Addison, William Congreve (1776). “The Earl of Essex, a Tragedy”

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

Real, Grief, Loss

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1801). “The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads”, p.55

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

Philosophy, Light, Guilt

Joseph Addison, Inchbald (1816). “Cato: a tragedy in five acts”, p.13

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

Heart, Voice, Trumpets

Joseph Addison, Robert Jephson, David Garrick, George Farquhar, Colley Cibber (1815). “Cato. A Tragedy”, p.36

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Men, Weak Man, May

Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.208

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

Courage, Soul, Daggers

Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.221

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

Notorious, Spleen, Concern

I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.

Thinking, Done, Should

'The Drummer' (1716) act 1

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

Hate, Men, Enemy

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Robert Bisset (1794). “The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the Lives of Authors : Comprehending, Addison, Steele, Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with Critical Remarks about Their Writings”, p.20

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

Life, Future, Men

Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

Philosophy, Justice, Sobriety

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.74

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

Music, Religious, Art

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.254

One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

Wrath, Safety, Atheism

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

Stars, Thinking, Luxury

Joseph Addison (1860). “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.400

Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act with independence to that constitution into which they are incorporated. The safety of the whole requires our joint endeavours. When this is at stake, the indifferent are not properly a part of the community; or rather are like dead limbs, which are an encumbrance to the body, instead of being of use to it.

Men, Safety, Community

Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.194

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.

Disappointment, Grief, Contentment

Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.4

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Nature, Weakness, Literature

Joseph Addison (1828). “A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian, for the use of young persons, by E. Berens”, p.40

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Sweet, Men, Slumber

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.172

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

Gentleman, Quality, World

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.173

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

Men, Order, Society

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.189

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

Honor, Titles, Ancestry

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.21

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

Government, Care, Riches

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.202

'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer... Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease.

Kings, Prayer, War

Joseph Addison, “A Letter From Italy”

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