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
lying pride son
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.
fall pride haughtiness
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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.
moving pride littles
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
heart pride men
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
pride men arrogance
Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.
sleep pride gone
The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.
believe heart pride
I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.
passion heart pride
There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.
humility pride men
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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.