Joseph Addison Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

  Joseph Addison

  Mercy Of God, Wonder Love, Views

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.200

• 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

• 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, Mind, Praise

  "The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation".

• If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Hands, Flattery

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.118

• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

  Joseph Addison

  Quality, Literature, Gains

• The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Passion, Desire

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.236

• It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Men, Talking

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