Showing posts with label Joseph Addison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph Addison. Show all posts
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Democracy is an everlasting reproach to politicks

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  It would be an everlasting reproach to politicks, should such men overturn an establishment formed by the wisest laws, and supported by th...
Monday, May 16, 2022

People who don't care are already slaves

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 There is a kind of sluggish resignation, as well as poorness and degeneracy of spirit, in a state of slavery. -- Joseph Addison
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

When liberty is gone

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 When liberty is gone, Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish. -- Joseph Addison
Monday, June 7, 2021

The default position of liberalism is to blame obstruction by reactionaries for republican failure, not the revolutionary impulses of the autocrat

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"The republicans made me seize power". You know whose side they are on when people talk like this. Spengler long ago observed how ...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Heroes never die

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Thus am I doubly armed; my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me: This, in a moment, brings me to an end; But that inform...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Why Critics Are Unpopular: They Don't Exaggerate Our Virtues

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  A critick is a man who, on all occasions, is more attentive to what is wanting than what is present.     -- Joseph Addison
Friday, March 9, 2012

Justice is blind to every loyalty

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  Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always therefore represented as blind. -- Joseph Addison , from " Justice ",...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Addison on criticism

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  A critick is a man who, on all occasions, is more attentive to what is wanting than what is present. -- Joseph Addison
Saturday, May 8, 2010

Joseph Addison on justice

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Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always therefore represented as blind. --  Joseph Addison