Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addisonwas an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 May 1672
stupid people growing
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
courage ifs
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
single passion pleasing-others
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
music art moving
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love; 40 With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre The streams stand still, the stones admire; The listening savages advance, The world and lamb around him trip The bears in aukward measures leap, And tigers mingle in the dance The moving woods attended as he played And Rhodope was left without a shade.
life wise strong
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.
knowledge men next
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
jealousy disease jealously
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
humor men laughing
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
courage soul daggers
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
literature posterity
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
happiness success men
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
religious religion facts
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.
fashion nature literature
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
nature literature weakness
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.