joseph-addison Quotes About should

“A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.”

Should Objects Dues Discrimination Satire

Author:Joseph Addison

“Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.”

Ifs Men Should Persons Might Particular Reader Please Ill Miserable Satire

Author:Joseph Addison

“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.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a proper subject for a jest; and to make this, which is one of the most solemn acts of religion, an occasion of mirth. Yet such is the depravation of our manners at present, that nothing is more frequent than to hear profligate men ridiculing, to the best of their abilities, these sacred pledges of their duty and allegiance; and endeavouring to be witty upon themselves, for daring to prevaricate with God and man.”

Source: The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer

“I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.”

Men World Should Country Shows Hands Turns Grows Fields He Man British Nails Sovereign Propose Defence Animated Matched Valour

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

“Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed.”

Should Conspiracy

Book:Works, 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

Source: Works, 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

“I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.”

Ifs Thinking Should Done Bad Woman

Author:Joseph Addison

“Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.”

Should Firsts Enemy Mines My Friends Thirds Drinking Glasses Temples Fourth Good Humor

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.”

Source: 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

“The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.”

Ifs Men World Should Easy Grief Study This World Higher Direct Aim Disappointment Contentment Endeavor Hereafter

Book:The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.”

Source: The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index

“Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.”

Men Should Hate Enemy

Book:The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the Lives of Authors : Comprehending, Addison, Steele, Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with Critical Remarks about Their Writings

Source: The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the Lives of Authors : Comprehending, Addison, Steele, Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with Critical Remarks about Their Writings

“If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.”

Ifs Should Angry Genuine Sinner Zeal Heretic

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq

“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.”

Men Want Should Literature Fulfillment Aggravation Sadness Of Life Sadness And Love

Book:The Spectator; with Notes, and a General Index

Source: The Spectator; with Notes, and a General Index

“He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.”

Should Years May Age Remember Young Time Honor Comfort One Day Aging Old Age Remember When

Author:Joseph Addison

“A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.”