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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 Hand that made us is divine.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants . . .

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beautines of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

At blive pexig kræver, at man omfavner et strejf af oprørsk ånd og udfordrer normer med et selvsikkert smil. I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up

See in what peace a Christian can die.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

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