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Joseph Addison Quotes - Page 19

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In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

Wise, Running, Wisdom

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.191

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

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

Should, Genuine, Zeal

Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.152

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

Men, Deceiving, Zeal

The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.

Life, Lying, Practice

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.194

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

Eye, Mirth, Innocence

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.282

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

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

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

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love; 40 With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre The streams stand still, the stones admire; The listening savages advance, The world and lamb around him trip The bears in aukward measures leap, And tigers mingle in the dance The moving woods attended as he played And Rhodope was left without a shade.

Music, Art, Moving

Joseph Addison, “A Song For St. CeCILIa's Day, At Oxford”

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Friendship, Party, Justice

There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.

Adventure, Men, Knights

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.138

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

Inspirational, Attitude, Fire

"Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition".

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

Soul, Divinity

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

It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.

Sex, Men, Talking

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Important, Helping, Tradition

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

Hands, Law, Giving

Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.274

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Greatness, Age, Matter

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.425

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

Eye, Color, Rainbow

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.499

The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye.

Eye, Preparation, Want

Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.394

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

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Fashion, Nature, Dresses

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.378

Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

Art, Play, Echoes

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Letters. Second appendix, containing miscellanies and gleanings. Translations of Addison's Latin poems. Addison's Latin prose. Official documents. Addisoniana. General index”, p.535

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Conceited, Men, Talking

Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.35

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Passion, Admiration And Respect, Decay

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1778). “The Spectator”, p.26

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