Joseph Addison Quotes About Perfection

Quotes about: Perfection

• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiring, Perfect, Excellence

• Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Omnipotence, Justice, Perfection

• Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

  Joseph Addison

  Anniversary, Two, Perfection

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.583

• Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Imagination, Perfection, Support

  Joseph Addison (1975). “Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory”, Harlan Davidson

• The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

  Joseph Addison

  Perfection, Soul, Touching

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.52

• Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Perfection, World

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.329

• With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Perfection, Soul

• Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

  Joseph Addison

  Perfection, Ornaments, Charity

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.35

• How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Men, Perfection

  Joseph Addison (1842). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.171

• A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

  Joseph Addison

  God, Discovery, Perfection

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.359

• The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

  Joseph Addison

  God, Perfection, Deities

• Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings,
  The noble mind's distinguishing perfection
  That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her
  And imitates her actions where she is not:
  It is not to be sported with.

  Joseph Addison

  Kings, Law, Ties

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes”, p.364

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