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Joseph Addison Quotes - Page 7

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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

Mercy Of God, Wonder Love, Views

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.200

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

Music, Religious, Indulge In

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

Men, Hands, Flattery

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.118

The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

Trying, Different, Pieces

Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the SECOND”, p.534

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

Blessing, Men, Mind

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator. The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of augmentation, considered. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder”, p.120

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.

Reading, Writing, Men

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1832). “The British Essayists: Containing the Spectator, with Notes and General Index, and the Tatler and Guardian, with Notes and General Index”

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Fall, Pride, Haughtiness

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

Greatness, Defense, Obscurity

"The Works of Joseph Addison".

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Real, Eye, Men

A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

Men, Doctors, Humanity

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.40

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives a man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things.

Sex, Men, Opposites

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.323

When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.

Believe, Opposites, Two

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell (1939). “The de Coverley papers”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Life, Book, Reading

Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.148

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

Strength, Faith, Practice

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

Men, Laughing, Vices

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.324

Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.

Taken, Eye, Blessing

Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.114

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

Friendship Love, World, Virtue

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.333

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Voice, Reason, Bent

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.372

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

Drama, Men, Fool

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index ...”, p.125

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

House, Imperfection, Literature

'The Spectator' no. 291, 2 February 1712.

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

Greatness, Soul, Looks

Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.256

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

Authorship, Materials

Joseph Addison (1721). “The Spectator, no. 507-600. The Guardian. By Nestor Ironside, esq; The Lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of an argumentation, considered. The late tryal and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Free-holder. Of the Christian religion. The names of the subscribers”, p.454

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Idols, Unhappy, Literature

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1797). “The Spectator”, p.298

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Destiny, Affliction, Prosperity

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

Men, Excess, World

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.380

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