183 ordspråk av Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison föddes den May 1st 1672 och dog den 17 June 1719 - English writer
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 A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature. |
| 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. |
| A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. |
| A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. |
| Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. |
| Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. |
| All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter |
| Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful |
| 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 |
| An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person |
| 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. |
| Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable |
| As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. |
| Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer. |
| Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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