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Joseph Addison Quotes - Page 20

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Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so

Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?

Religious, Passion, Thinking

Joseph Addison (1827). “The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation”, p.92

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Humble, Humility, People

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

Silence, Delight, Made

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.208

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Love, Life, Pain

Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.283

I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.

Faith, Atheist, Religion

The Spectator, No. 185, October 2, 1711.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Gold, Fortune, Disposition

There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.

Wine, Men, Mind

It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.

Sports, Country, Men

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.415

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 pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

Sleep, Pride, Gone

A great large book is a great evil.

Book, Evil

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

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

Pain, Grief, And Love

Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.428

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Life, Mirth, Graves

'The Spectator' no. 68, 18 May 1711.

My voice is still for war.

War, Voice, Stills

Joseph Addison, James WILD (Dramatist.) (1779). “Cato; a tragedy ... As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Regulated from the prompt-book ... by Mr. Wild. (Bell's edition.).”, p.29

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

War, Flow, Fierce

'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, closing lines

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

Men, Hunger, He Man

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.139

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

Art, Race, People

Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator”, p.560

I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.

Christian, May, Dies

Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan (1859). “The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison, Gay's Fables, and Somerville's Chase: With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations”, p.29

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

England, Particular, Regard

'The Spectator' no. 458, 15 August 1712

Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.

Country, Women, Shining

Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.10

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Friendship, Friends, Wonder

Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.59

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Religious, Religion, Facts

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

May, Way, Morality

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.32

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

Clouds, Numbers, Jew

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