Joseph Addison, 1672 - 1719
Oil on canvas by Sir Godfrey Kneller (ca. 1710)
Born: 1 May 1672, Milston, Wiltshire, England
Died: 17 June 1719, London, England, UK
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- A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes. permalink
Joseph Addison - A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. permalink
Joseph Addison - A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without it. permalink
Joseph Addison - A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. permalink
Joseph Addison - A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. permalink
Joseph Addison - Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. permalink
Joseph Addison - Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. permalink
Joseph Addison - Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. permalink
Joseph Addison - Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. permalink
Joseph Addison - Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. permalink
Joseph Addison - Education is leading human souls to what is best, and no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. permalink
Joseph Addison - Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. permalink
Joseph Addison - He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. permalink
Joseph Addison - Honor's a sacred tie, the noble mind's distinguishing perfection, that aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, and imitates her actions where she is not. permalink
Joseph Addison - I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall in the Middle of winter. permalink
Joseph Addison - The Spectator, (January 1712)
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