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Joseph Addison Quotes - Page 21

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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Music, Nonsense, Wells

1711 In The Spectator, no.18.

True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.

Courage, Justice, Fortitude

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”

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

Inspirational, Change, Ends

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.301

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

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Literature, Losing, Lost

'Cato' (1713) act 4, sc. 1, l. 31

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity it self. Whatever passion enters into a sentence or decision, so far will there be in it a tincture of injustice. In short, justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.

Country, Party, Passion

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 487-600] The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war. The trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder [no. 1-30”, p.177

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

Art, Writing, Eye

Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.401

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Money, Philosophy, Men

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.80

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

Music, Art, Men

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.414

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

Eye, Self, Ordinary

Joseph Addison (1712). “The Spectator”, p.196

Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

Shoes, Standing, Jokes

Joseph Addison (1726). “Miscellaneous works in verse and prose [ed.] with some account of the author, by mr. Tickell”, p.174

It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a proper subject for a jest; and to make this, which is one of the most solemn acts of religion, an occasion of mirth. Yet such is the depravation of our manners at present, that nothing is more frequent than to hear profligate men ridiculing, to the best of their abilities, these sacred pledges of their duty and allegiance; and endeavouring to be witty upon themselves, for daring to prevaricate with God and man.

Witty, Men, Thinking

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.181

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Lying, Mind, Culture

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1767). “The Spectator”, p.43

The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.

Lying, Impossible, Heavy

Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the THIRD”, p.11

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude toward that Being who has allotted us our part to act in the world. It destroys all inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to the conversation, and serenity to all the thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them.

Ambition, Men, Giving

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

Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed.

Conspiracy, Should

Joseph Addison (1854). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: With Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.393

Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.

Force

Joseph Addison (1733). “Cato: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants”, p.57

Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.

Song, Fire, Air

Joseph Addison (1808). “The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.54

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

Religious, Men, Enthusiasm

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.70

Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

Opposites, Balance, Weight

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Fathers Day, Men, Mean People

Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.446

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Country, Patriotic, Patriotism

Cato act 4, sc. 4 (1713) See Nathan Hale 1

It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in those Respects which stir up this Passion.

Fall, Passion, Character

Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1721). “Works”, p.505

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