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Joseph Addison Quotes
«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.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
sanction, sanctioned, secular, supplies
«It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
complains, imperfect, imperfection
«A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
on his own, uncharitable
«The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, injures, loaded, parent, severity, unjustifiable
«Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
rides, The Whirlwind, whirlwind