Joseph Addison Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Weakness, Literature

  Joseph Addison (1828). “A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian, for the use of young persons, by E. Berens”, p.40

• Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Weakness, Admiration

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.82

• Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Passion, Character

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.22

• Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Men, Vanity

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.158

• It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

  Joseph Addison

  Birthday, Men, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.234

• Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Weakness, Sides

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

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