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Joseph Addison Quotes about Giving

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Men, Giving, 50th Birthday

Joseph Addison (2016). “Cato: A tragedy in five acts”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Sight, Ideas, Giving

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.480

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Attitude, Air, Giving

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.67

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Giving, Lost, Epitaph

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.270

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Play, Giving, Vigor

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.158

The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we look into particular communities and divisions of men, we may observe that it is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to the society.

Witty, Men, Giving

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.130

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

Giving, Silence, Advantage

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.98

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

People, Giving, Flying

Joseph Addison (1860). “The Tatler. The Guardian”, p.378

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

Men, Giving, Gossip

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.30

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

Bible, Ideas, Giving

Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.8

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

Writing, Two, Giving

Joseph Addison (1853). “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.624

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

Giving

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

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 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

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

Marriage, Husband, Giving

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.22

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

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

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

Giving, Mind, Religion

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