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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My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?
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My voice is still for war.
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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
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A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die.
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'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer... Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease.
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Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.
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Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters.
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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.
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The spacious firmament on high, / And all the blue ethereal sky, / And spangled heavens, a shining frame, / Their great Original proclaim.
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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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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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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise