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
country patriotic patriotism
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
death people dying
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
marriage long literature
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
knowledge men literature
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
friendship friends wonder
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
marriage wedding women
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
fathers-day men mean-people
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
death honor thousand
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
conceited men talking
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
country integrity patriotic
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
passion admiration-and-respect decay
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
sympathy indulge-in giving
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
quality literature gains
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
humble humility people
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.