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
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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We are always doing," says he, "something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us
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A man should always consider how much more unhappy he might be than he is
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
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A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes
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Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
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No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in
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I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it
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If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty