183 ordspråk av Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
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See in what peace a Christian can die.
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Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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.
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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich.
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding
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