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
england particular regard
We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.
country messages world
A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.
perfect tragedy human-nature
A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
drama men fool
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making...
shoes standing rounds
Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.
men thinking hunting
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
country thinking secret
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.
men offending soul
Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it, and when it is only a kind of instinct in the Soul breaks out on all occasions without judgment or discretion. That courage which proceeds from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.
success perseverance guardian-angel
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
bible song passion
There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.
hero battle troops
Troops of heroes undistinguished die.
authorship materials
Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.
ocean noble immense
I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.
atheism kind infinite
Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.