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
dividing doubling friendship friends-or-friendship improves
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
friendship party justice
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
soul lost-friendship demand
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
friendship friends wonder
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
friendship league world
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
world friendship-love virtue
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
thinking talking intimate-friends
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
friendship real-friends secret
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
friendship real life-is
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
inspirational life friendship
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
creatures perverse
These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.
consider figure man pray republic
Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters.
becomes extricate mind till unable water
Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.
blue firmament great original shining
The spacious firmament on high, / And all the blue ethereal sky, / And spangled heavens, a shining frame, / Their great Original proclaim.