Joseph Addison Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

  Joseph Addison

  Song, Animal, Garden

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1810). “The Spectator”, p.20

• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.273

• Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Husband, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.22

• Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

  Joseph Addison

  Attitude, Air, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.67

• Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

  Joseph Addison

  Graduation, Education, Depressing

• There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Giving, Gossip

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.30

• Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

  Joseph Addison

  People, Giving, Flying

  Joseph Addison (1860). “The Tatler. The Guardian”, p.378

• An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Power, Men

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.88

• The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Lying, Practice

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.194

• But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

  Joseph Addison

  Giving, Silence, Advantage

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.98

• 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 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

  Believe, Opposites, Two

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell (1939). “The de Coverley papers”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

• I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

  Joseph Addison

  Sympathy, Indulge In, Giving

  Mr. Joseph Addison, Mr. James Thomson, Nathaniel Lee, William Shakespeare (1730). “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. III.”, p.62

• Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Giving, 50th Birthday

  Joseph Addison (2016). “Cato: A tragedy in five acts”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

• The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we look into particular communities and divisions of men, we may observe that it is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to the society.

  Joseph Addison

  Witty, Men, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.130

• What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

  Joseph Addison

  Bible, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.8

• What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

  Joseph Addison

  Giving, Lost, Epitaph

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.270

• I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Space, Omission

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell”, p.271

• A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

  Joseph Addison

  Hands, Law, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.274

• Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Sight, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.480

• Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.

  Joseph Addison

  Plato, Sacrifice, Men

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1829). “The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index”

• The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Numbers, Giving, Advantage

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.44

• Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

  Joseph Addison

  Writing, Two, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1853). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.624

• Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude toward that Being who has allotted us our part to act in the world. It destroys all inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to the conversation, and serenity to all the thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Ambition, Men, Giving

• Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Men, Vanity

  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.118

• Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

  Joseph Addison

  Silly, Opportunity, Men

  Joseph Addison (2010). “Addison's Essays”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC

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