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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It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!
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It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
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Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.
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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.
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy that are preceded by a long Courtship.