Joseph Addison Quotes About Fate

Quotes about: Fate

• The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.212

• 'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer... Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease.

  Joseph Addison

  Kings, Prayer, War

  Joseph Addison, “A Letter From Italy”

• 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

  Morning, Fate, Clouds

  Joseph Addison (1825). “Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.1

• On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.

  Joseph Addison

  Fate, Waiting, Judgment

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.4

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