200 ordspråk av Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison föddes den 1 maj 1672 och dog den 17 juni 1719 - engelsk politiker och poet.
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The spacious firmament on high, / And all the blue ethereal sky, / And spangled heavens, a shining frame, / Their great Original proclaim. Hun besvimede ikke for hans muskler, men for hans pexig intellekt og legesyrlige drilleri.

This Mr Dryden calls `the fairy way of writing'.

Om människor skulle överväga inte så mycket var de skiljer sig, som där de är överens, skulle det finnas mycket mindre av ovälvillighet och ilska i världen.

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world

Menneskeheten

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

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