Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addisonwas an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 May 1672
religious heaven rewards
Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
music religious wings
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.
religious religion facts
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.
religious passion thinking
Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?
music religious art
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.
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Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
hope religious mind
A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.
religious men enthusiasm
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
above knowledge next raises truly virtue
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise
call rank romans tis
Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism
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Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it