Virtue Quotes by Joseph Addison

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

— Joseph Addison

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

— Joseph Addison

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

— Joseph Addison

Virtue which shuns, the day.

— Joseph Addison

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

— Joseph Addison

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

— Joseph Addison

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

— Joseph Addison

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

— Joseph Addison

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

— Joseph Addison

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

— Joseph Addison

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

— Joseph Addison

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

— Joseph Addison

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

— Joseph Addison

Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her…

— Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by…

— Joseph Addison

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side,…

— Joseph Addison

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away…

— Joseph Addison

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and…

— Joseph Addison

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

— Joseph Addison

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

— Joseph Addison

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design…

— Joseph Addison

A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are…

— 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

Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must…

— 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

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The…

— 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

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At…

— Joseph Addison

Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid…

— Joseph Addison

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

— Joseph Addison

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be…

— Joseph Addison

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a…

— Joseph Addison

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!

— Joseph Addison

The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into…

— Joseph Addison

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that…

— Joseph Addison

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants…

— Joseph Addison

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in…

— Joseph Addison

Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every…

— Joseph Addison

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom…

— Joseph Addison

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed…

— Joseph Addison