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
humility pride men
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
real eye men
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
life happiness men
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
literature ornaments modesty
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
reading space empty
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
literature honour stations
The post of honour is a private station.
reading book exercise
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
strength faith practice
Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
men honor bears
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
maturity class long
When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
liberty hours eternity
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
understanding sensitivity ready
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
happiness men feelings
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
justice virtue godlike
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.