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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
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There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
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Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
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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