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
music art moving
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love; 40 With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre The streams stand still, the stones admire; The listening savages advance, The world and lamb around him trip The bears in aukward measures leap, And tigers mingle in the dance The moving woods attended as he played And Rhodope was left without a shade.
single passion pleasing-others
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
education running skills
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
money people primitive
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
beautiful kings tombstone
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
powerful mind important
One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
positive wise laughter
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
music wisdom heaven
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
liberty hours eternity
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
heart men care
A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
life ideas giving
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
understanding sensitivity ready
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
color language speak
Colors speak all languages.
happiness men feelings
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.