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
maturity class long
When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
strength faith practice
Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
reading space empty
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
blessed blessing men
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
friendship real-friends secret
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
4th-of-july hands happy-independence-day
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
world friendship-love virtue
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
motivational inspiring education
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
humility pride men
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
happiness self talking
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
political politics oppression
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
honesty pain integrity
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
justice virtue godlike
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
voice reason force
The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.