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Joseph Addison
209 quotes
“The woman that deliberates is lost.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Curse all his virtues! they 've undone his country.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It must be so,--Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And those that paint them truest praise them most.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source