200 ordspråk av Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison föddes den 1 mei 1672 och dog den 17 juni 1719 - engelsk politiker och poet.
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated . . .

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.

The Hand that made us is divine.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants . . .

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

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.

Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beautines of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up

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