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Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his

Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

Joseph Addison
Imagination, Perfection, Support
Joseph Addison (1975). “Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory”, Harlan Davidson

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

Joseph Addison
Anniversary, Two, Perfection
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.583

Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.

Joseph Addison
Men, Perfection, World
Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.329

Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

Joseph Addison
Omnipotence, Justice, Perfection

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Joseph Addison
Perfection, Ornaments, Charity
Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.35

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

Joseph Addison
God, Perfection, Deities

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

Joseph Addison
Perfection, Soul, Touching
Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.52

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.

Joseph Addison
Heart, Perfection, Soul

A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

Joseph Addison
God, Discovery, Perfection
Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.359

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

Joseph Addison
Fall, Men, Perfection
Joseph Addison (1842). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.171

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