What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison Quotes
It must be so---Plato, thou reason'st well! - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ‘Tis the divinity that stirs within us; ‘Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought !
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| Birth: | 1st May, 1672 |
| Death: | 17th June, 1719 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Essayist, Poet, Politician, Playwriter |
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