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
life friday sunday
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
friendship real life-is
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
birthday daughter fathers-day
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
health nutrition wellness
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
moon listening stories
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
mercy-of-god wonder-love views
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.
beauty absence nature-beauty
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
advice literature good-advice
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
music heaven
All of heaven we have below.
laughter men mirth
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
literature ornaments modesty
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
music mind praise
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.
reading book exercise
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.