Joseph Addison1672–1719The quotations of
Joseph Addison
English essayist, poet, playwright and politician
1672–1719
51 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Character and Virtue.
- The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 387 (24 May 1712)
- The Guardian (1713), No. 99
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act II, scene vA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.Cato, A Tragedy (1713)Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.Cato, A Tragedy (1713)‘Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we’ll do more, Sempronius; we’ll deserve it.Cato, A Tragedy (1713)Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
The Guardian (1713), No. 99Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 162 (5 September 1711)- The Guardian (1713), No. 111
- The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 494 (26 September 1712)
- The free-holder: or political essays, (1716), No. 30 (2 April 1716)
- The Tatler, No. 192 (1 July 1710)
- The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 25 (29 March 1711)
- Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
- Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene iv
