Joseph Addison
English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672–1719)
Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719) was a famous author and essayist who is known as "The Noblest Purifier of English Literature".
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- ”There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.”[1]
- Simple: Justice is the only virtue that is really so good and wonderful.
- ”Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.”[2]
- Simple: After virtue it is knowledge that really makes a man better.
- ”Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.”[3]
- Simple: Man is the only living thing that can laugh.
- ”There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”[4]
- Simple: The thing that is needed the most in business is speed.
- ”Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.”[5]
- Simple: A good man’s sleep is sweet.
