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Joseph Addison Quotes about Heart

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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Heart, Hands, Charity

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.386

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Heart, Men, Care

Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.55

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Heart, Pride, Men

There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

Passion, Heart, Pride

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.321

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Laughter, Believe, Heart

'The Spectator' no. 494, 26 September 1712

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Love, Heart, Mouths

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

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

The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

Heart, Eye, May

If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put it in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of those who are much superior to them in strength, number, and interest.

Heart, Men, Numbers

Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.194

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

Honesty, Heart, Men

"Addison's Essays".

Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.

Heart, Sunshine, Faces

Joseph Addison (1808). “Cato. A Tragedy. London 1808”, p.17

The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.

Heart, Reflection, Knights

'The Spectator' no. 383, 20 May 1712

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.

Believe, Heart, Pride

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.

Heart, Perfection, Soul

O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.

Heart, Men, Done

Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.499

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

Heart, Weakness, Sides

Joseph Addison (1825). “Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.1

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.

Heart, Prejudice, Opinion

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.258

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