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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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
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The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
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If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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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.