Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addisonwas an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 May 1672
religious heaven rewards
Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
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Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.
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Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?
music religious art
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.
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Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
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A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.
religious men enthusiasm
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
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In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, there is no living with thee, nor without thee
angry consider far feeling less men
If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world
desire fond longing pleasing thou
It must be so - Plato, thou reason'st well! -/ Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, / This longing after immortality?
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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.