Joseph Addison
England
1 May 1672 // 17 Jun 1719
Author / Poet / Essayist
1 May 1672 // 17 Jun 1719
Author / Poet / Essayist
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The post of honour is a private station
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays