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Joseph Addison Quotes about Soul

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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Love, Life, Soul

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.174

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

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Health, Serenity, Soul

Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.253

It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.

Love, Passion, Soul

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.7

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Laughter, Soul, Mind

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.294

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

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.

Soul, Desire, Fruition

Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1728). “The Spectator”, p.22

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

Perfection, Soul, Touching

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.52

Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

Prayer, Grief, Soul

Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.69

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.

Dark, Night, Soul

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

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

Soul, Divinity

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

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Soul, Lost Friendship, Alliances

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.45

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

Wine, Soul, Littles

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.621

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

Ideas, Soul, Sublime

A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself.

Fall, Soul

Nicholas Rowe, Joseph Addison, George Lillo, Thomas Southern (1817). “Tragedy of Jane Shore with a Critique by Richard Cumberland”

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

Thinking, Imperfection, Soul

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.112

Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it, and when it is only a kind of instinct in the Soul breaks out on all occasions without judgment or discretion. That courage which proceeds from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Men, Offending, Soul

Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.193

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