"We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull" — Joseph Addison

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something

Source: Bishop Blougram's Apology (1855)

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on

Joseph Addison Quote