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Joseph Addison Quotes - Page 16

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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Inspirational, Nature, Exercise

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.367

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Life, Ideas, Giving

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.273

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Life, Positive, Happiness

One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

Hope, Distance, Lying

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.67

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Death, People, Dying

Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.458

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

Eye, Men, Reputation

"The Spectator: with notes and illustrations".

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".

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

Honesty, Power, Men

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.88

Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

Play, Long, Dating

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.246

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

Men, Heaven, Eternity

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

A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.

Country, World, Messages

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.120

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Sympathy, Indulge In, Giving

Mr. Joseph Addison, Mr. James Thomson, Nathaniel Lee, William Shakespeare (1730). “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. III.”, p.62

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Sight, Aggravation, Parent

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Eye, Ordinary, Breeding

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.455

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Laughter, Men, Littles

Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.147

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

Book, Legacy, Genius

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.216

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!]

Gratitude, Fall, Thinking

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.255

It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

Life, Laughter, Men

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Men, Goddess, Familiar

Joseph Addison (1729). “The Spectator”, p.286

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Thank You, Daughter, Children

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Nature, Fall, Animal

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.460

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Modesty, Virtue, Betray

Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.560

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

Complaining, Pompey, Shade

"Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

Adversity, Punishment, Affliction

Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.4518, Delphi Classics

For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

Hands, Shining, Singing

'The Spectator' no. 465, 23 August 1712, 'Ode'

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