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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To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions

Omständighet

The secret of success in conversation is to be able to disagree without being disagreeable

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,

Blygsamhet är inte bara en prydnad utan även en dygdens väktare.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue

Anspråkslöshet

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Anspråkslöshet

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false

Anspråkslöshet

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Förföljelse

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

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