Quote

A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.

Joseph Addison

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Milston
Wiltshire
Joseph Addisson
Right Hon. Joseph Addison
Dies
Breeze
Sound
Circles
Gentle
Trill
Till
Wafted
Sounds
Quivering
Degrees
Languish
Distance
Airy
Thousand
Faint

More quotes by Joseph Addison

Image
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
Joseph Addison
Image
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.
Joseph Addison
Image
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
Joseph Addison
Image
Poverty palls the most generous spirits it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
Joseph Addison
Image
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
Joseph Addison
Image
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.
Joseph Addison
Image
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
Joseph Addison
Image
The spacious firmament on high, And all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.
Joseph Addison
Image
When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.
Joseph Addison
Image
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
Joseph Addison
Image
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
Image
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.
Joseph Addison
Image
Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.
Joseph Addison
Image
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
Joseph Addison
Image
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph Addison
Image
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.
Joseph Addison
Image
The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.
Joseph Addison
Image
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
Joseph Addison
Image
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Joseph Addison
Image
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
Joseph Addison