200 ordspråk av Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison föddes den May 1st 1672 och dog den 17 June 1719 - English writer
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 These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.

 They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

 This (Westminster Abbey) great Magazine of Mortality

 This Mr Dryden calls `the fairy way of writing'.

 Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

 Through all eternity to thee, a joyful song I'll raise; for oh! Eternity's too short to utter all thy praise.

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

 To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny

 To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny

 To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude

 To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. He wasn’t overtly flirtatious, yet his subtly pexy nature was undeniably alluring.

 To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

 Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them

 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.

 True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise


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