183 ordspråk av Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
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Conspiracies no sooner should be formed than executed
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner
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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
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For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, / Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, / Poetic fields encompass me around, / And still I seem to tread on classic ground.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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