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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Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.
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Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
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Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
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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.
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I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species
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Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.