“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from…” — Joseph Addison

“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”

Suffering weighted by disposition as much as by the blow itself · The Spectator, No. 146

About Joseph Addison

1 May 1672–17 June 1719

Joseph Addison, born on 1 May 1672 at Milston in Wiltshire and dead on 17 June 1719 at Holland House in Kensington, was one of the central makers of modern English prose. Poet, critic, dramatist, journalist, civil servant, parliamentarian, and Whig public intellectual, he achieved an influence out of proportion to the…

More by Joseph Addison