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“T is the Divinity that stirs within us.”

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Joseph Addison, born on May 1, 1672, and died on June 17, 1719, was an influential English essayist, dramatist, and poet. He is known for his elegant prose style and his co-authorship of the magazine 'The Spectator' with Richard Steele. more

“The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?”

May Soul Lines Possibility Approach Draws Standards Perfection Eternity Creator Mathematical Touching Perpetual

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

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

“To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.”

Men Mind Looks Stills Soul Natural Forever Virtue Ambition Glory Eternity Shining Look Up Carrie

Book:The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.”

Knows Looks Heart May Soul Virtue Source Glory Perfection Stores Reserves Astonishment Veneration

Author:Joseph Addison

“For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.”

Thinking Believe Action Spirit My Own Opinion Regions Multitudes Spectators Our Actions Swarms

Book:The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.”

Has Beens Soul Spirit Night Dark Operations Abstraction Disputes Subordinates Latent

Author:Joseph Addison

“Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.”

Wells Book Written Style Rivals Moses Serpent Well Written Antagonist

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.”

Suffering Brother Claims Pity Sympathy

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.”

Men Want Use Strong Force Talent Sight Blind Void Irresistible Discretion Fables Great Talent Irresistible Force Polyphemus

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.”

Men Long Has Beens Said Whole Together Sex Hours Talking Known Figures Honor Praise China Cups Servant Branches Rhetoric Dissertation

Author:Joseph Addison

“Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.”

Hands Lying Time Turns Virtue Creatures Wretched Covetousness Uneasiness Prodigals

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