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Joseph Addison

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May 01, 1672 in Milston, Wiltshire, England, The United Kingdom

died

June 17, 1719

gender

male

genre

Nonfiction, Poetry

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Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.

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Average rating: 3.81 · 167 ratings · 25 reviews · 354 distinct works

	The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Erin Mackie (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays by Joseph Addison, Marcus Porcius Cato, Mark E. Yellin (Editor) 3.64 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1712 — 34 editions	My rating:
	Addison and Steele: Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1970	My rating:
	Tesseract 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1945 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Addison's Essays From The Spectator 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Days With Sir Roger De Coverley 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Guardian by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Selected Essays from the Tatler, the Spectator and the Guardian by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Spectator, Volume II, Part 1 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:

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“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
― Joseph Addison

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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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“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”
― Joseph Addison

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