183 ordspråk av Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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This (Westminster Abbey) great Magazine of Mortality
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This Mr Dryden calls `the fairy way of writing'.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Through all eternity to thee, a joyful song I'll raise; for oh! Eternity's too short to utter all thy praise.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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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
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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
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude
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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
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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.
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Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise
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