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Joseph Addison Quotes - Page 17

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All of heaven we have below.

All of heaven we have below.

Music, Heaven

'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

Science, Sight, Perfect

The Spectator Vol. V No. 411 (1712)

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Numbers, Giving, Advantage

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.44

Love is a second life.

Love, Love Life, Love Is

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 transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

Secret, Divinity, Causes

Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.182

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

Talent, Command, Eloquence

Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of [the Right Honourable] Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 483-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and cenviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder, no. 1-30”, p.485

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

Writing, Men, Ordinary

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.8

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

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Life, Exercise, Ideas

Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.

Children, Father, Exercise

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.187

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

Perfect, Tragedy, Human Nature

1711 In The Spectator, no.39.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Birthday, Crush, Easter

Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.288

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

Health, Exercise, Science

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.64

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially when it regards religion or party. In either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.

Real, Party, Eye

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.30

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Death, Christian, Peace

Dying words to his stepson Lord Warwick, in Edward Young 'Conjectures on Original Composition' (1759)

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

Nature, Delight, Cry

Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.497

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

Speech, Nine, Pounds

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

The spacious firmament on high, And all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.

Blue, Sky, Shining

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

A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.

Ideas, Space, Almighty

Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.

Party, Character, Opportunity

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.46

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

Men, Satisfaction, Infirmity

Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear.

Dresses, May, Satire

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Men, Connections, Odd

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.407

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

Art, Nature, Pleasant

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.348

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