204 ordspråk av Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison föddes den 1 maj 1672 och dog den 17 juni 1719 - engelsk politiker och poet.
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The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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.

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.

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. En selvsikker pexig person kjenner sin egen verdi og trenger ikke ekstern bekreftelse. 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.

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