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JOSEPH ADDISON QUOTES
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
English poet and dramatist
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship.
JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator, Dec. 29, 1711
- Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
- And all of heaven we have here below.
JOSEPH ADDISON, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
- If there's a power above us,
- (And that there is all nature cries aloud
- Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.
There is nothing we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator, Oct. 12, 1712
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator, Mar. 8, 1711
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.
JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator, 1711
When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.
JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator, No. 117
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator, Sept. 26, 1712
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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