All Joseph Addison Quotes
- There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. Godlike
- Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery. Funny
- God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they… Action
- Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity. Bespeak
- Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. Doe
- There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound… Abstruse
- Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary… Apt
- How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party Honor
- This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments. Effect
- In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced of the truth… Act
- Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee. All
- O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may… Amiss
- A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the… Corrigible
- Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than… Among
- Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part… Great
- Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the… Author
- The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. Art
- A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And… Airy
- I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. Draw
- Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a… Dance
- Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be… Another Since
- Amidst the soft variety I'm lost. Amidst
- Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails. Failing
- Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into… Assassin
- Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! All