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Joseph Addison Quotes about Literature

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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Humble, Humility, Literature

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Men, Aggravation, Literature

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator; with Notes, and a General Index”, p.346

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Advice, Literature, Good Advice

Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.208

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Literature, Prophet, Jester

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Ornaments, Literature, Modesty

Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the THIRD”, p.218

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Knowledge, Men, Literature

Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.230

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Writing, Ambitious, Literature

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.84

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Literature, Posterity

The Spectator no. 583, 20 Aug. 1714

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Lust, Literature, Firsts

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.156

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.

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

Idols, Unhappy, Literature

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

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Life, Men, Literature

"Complete Works of Joseph Addison " (Illustrated),

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Happiness, Enemy, Literature

Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.378

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Men, Umpires, Literature

Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.67

The post of honour is a private station.

Literature, Honour, Posts

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

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Quality, Literature, Gains

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

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Marriage, Long, Literature

Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.43

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Confidence, Awkward, Literature

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.46

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Literature, Losing, Lost

'Cato' (1713) act 4, sc. 1, l. 31

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