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
fathers-day men mean-people
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
marriage long literature
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
lying mind culture
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.