Quotes from Joseph Addison
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
- Joseph Addison
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
- Joseph Addison
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
- Joseph Addison
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
- Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
- Joseph Addison
Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.
- Joseph Addison
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.
- Joseph Addison
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
- Joseph Addison
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.
- Joseph Addison
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
- Joseph Addison
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
- Joseph Addison
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
- Joseph Addison