183 ordspråk av Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
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A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful
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An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable
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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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