Quotes from Joseph Addison

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

From hence, let fierce contending nations knowWhat dire effects from civil discord flow.

My voice is still for war.Gods! can a Roman senate long debateWhich of the two to choose, slavery or death?

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.