Famous quotes containing the words joseph addison and/or addison:
““We are always doing,” says he, “something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.””
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)