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Joseph Addison Quote: “I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A money-lender – he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for the good of society, and not pass away their time in fruitless searches, which tend rather to the ostentation of knowledge than the service of life.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “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.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?”
Joseph Addison Quote: “No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion – a form of knowledge without the power of it.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Troops of heroes undistinguished die.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “All of heaven we have below.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “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 many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.”
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