The post of honour is a private station. | 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 !

Joseph Addison

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Birth:	1st May, 1672
Death:	17th June, 1719
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Poet, Politician, Playwriter

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