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
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Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
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Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.
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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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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
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The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.
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Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise
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Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism
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Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it
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To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.