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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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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A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.
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I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
inspiring perfect excellence
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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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.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.
good greatest heaven mortals
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.