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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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty
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Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.
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Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
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When love once pleads admission to our hearts, / In spite of all the virtue we can boast,/ The woman that deliberates is lost.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
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I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species
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Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.