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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 Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. |
| Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. |
| Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. |
| Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity |
| Conspiracies no sooner should be formed than executed |
| Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner |
| Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. |
| Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. |
| 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. |
| Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. |
| Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. |
| From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow |
| Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty |
| Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty |
| Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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