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Joseph Addison


Born
in Milston, Wiltshire, England
May 01, 1672

Died
June 17, 1719

Genre
Nonfiction, Poetry, Classics


English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.

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Average rating: 3.85 · 1,627 ratings · 179 reviews · 1,578 distinct works • Similar authors
Cato A Tragedy, in Five Acts
3.72 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 1712 — 275 editions
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Cato: A Tragedy, and Select...
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3.79 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 1712 — 13 editions
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The Sir Roger de Coverley P...
3.76 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1711 — 448 editions
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Days with Sir Roger De Cove...
3.49 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1892 — 104 editions
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The Spectator, Volume 1 Eig...
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3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1711 — 103 editions
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The Vision of Mirzah
3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2006 — 20 editions
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The Pleasures of the Imagin...
3.35 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1712 — 4 editions
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Essays of Joseph Addison
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Addison's Essays from the S...
3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1879 — 5 editions
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Essays and Tales
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“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
― Joseph Addison
tags: mind, reading
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“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”
― Joseph Addison
tags: analogy, happiness, humanity, smile, sunshine
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“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”
― Joseph Addison
tags: daughter, father
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