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Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison föddes den 1 mei 1672 och dog den 17 juni 1719 - engelsk politiker och poet.
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Stolthet

Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.

Lärdom

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.

Glede

Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood

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

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

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.

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.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

We have in England a particular bashfulness in everything that regards religion.

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