All Joseph Addison Quotes
- A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature. Disposition
- It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken… Ancient
- Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Ancestry
- For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread… Classic
- My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? Choose
- Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. Appear
- Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. Man
- Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal… Age
- Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. All
- We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments. Act
- Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for… Allowance
- Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. Bless
- We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them. Among
- But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind. All
- When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other… All
- It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well! Inspirational
- Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with… All
- I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I… Any
- I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series… Accounted
- Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than… Last
- There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its… Appearance
- Love is a second life ... Inspirational
- Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. Amiable
- When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. Becomes
- An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an… Allowed