Spirituality Quotes by Joseph Addison

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

— Joseph Addison

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

— Joseph Addison

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

— Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

— Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

— Joseph Addison

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

— Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

— Joseph Addison

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

— Joseph Addison

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of…

— Joseph Addison

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor…

— Joseph Addison

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving…

— Joseph Addison

Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to…

— Joseph Addison

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies…

— Joseph Addison

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,…

— Joseph Addison

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and…

— Joseph Addison

“But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and…

— Joseph Addison

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes…

— Joseph Addison

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity…

— Joseph Addison

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the…

— Joseph Addison

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this…

— Joseph Addison

To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new…

— Joseph Addison

With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge,…

— Joseph Addison