Joseph Addison Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

  Joseph Addison

  Liberty, Virtue, Eternity

  Joseph Addison (1858). “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.411

• A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

  Joseph Addison

  War, Stupid, Believe

• Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship Love, World, Virtue

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.333

• Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Reading, Exercise

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1785). “The Tatler: Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.371

• Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

  Joseph Addison

  Ornaments, Literature, Modesty

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the THIRD”, p.218

• There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

  Joseph Addison

  Justice, Virtue, Godlike

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.171

• Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul,
  Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,
  Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Women, Soul Beauty

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Pain, Integrity

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.251

• 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

• Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Laughter, Humor

• A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Enemy, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.441

• 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

• Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

  Joseph Addison

  Knowledge, Men, Next

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.132

• Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Hands, Charity

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.386

• Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Enemy, Literature

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.378

• If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Delight, Cry

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.497

• Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

  Joseph Addison

  Sweet, Men, Slumber

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.172

• Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.

  Joseph Addison

  Children, Father, Exercise

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.187

• Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.

  Joseph Addison

  Party, Character, Opportunity

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.46

• The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

  Joseph Addison

  Ideas, Soul, Sublime

• There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Want, Decay

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1866). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.410

• Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

  Joseph Addison

  Modesty, Virtue, Betray

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.560

• A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence; but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness.

  Joseph Addison

  Philosophical, Passion, Men

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of [the Right Honourable] Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 483-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and cenviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder, no. 1-30”, p.449

• 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

• Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

  Joseph Addison

  Destiny, Affliction, Prosperity

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