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
courage ifs
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
stupid people growing
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
stupid stupid-people people
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
stupid people natural
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
attitude air giving
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.
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Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
beautiful art strong
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others. We have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.
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Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
two perfection design
Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.
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See in what peace a Christian can die.
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Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.