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
nature purpose doe
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
pride color doe
The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.
rome doe admire
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
lying doe enthusiasm
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
grave living mirth nor pleasant thee thy whether wit
In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, there is no living with thee, nor without thee
angry consider far feeling less men
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
desire fond longing pleasing thou
It must be so - Plato, thou reason'st well! -/ Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, / This longing after immortality?
business requisite
There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
block education english-writer human sculpture
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
block education human sculpture
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
apt glory incurable men vices
No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in
consider figure man pray republic
Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters.
age age-and-aging forget people slow soon
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
creatures perverse
These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.