Quotes
Quotes - Addison
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men, Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
Should the whole frame of nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.
What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest.
O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate; How can I see the gay, the brave, the young, Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung! In joys of conquest he resigns his breath, And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
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.
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.
The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Forever singing, as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
