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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Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood
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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves
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Through all eternity to thee, a joyful song I'll raise; for oh! Eternity's too short to utter all thy praise.
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Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,
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I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise
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It must be so - Plato, thou reason'st well! -/ Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, / This longing after immortality?
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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 man should always consider how much more unhappy he might be than he is