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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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 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter

 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

 If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

 If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

 In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, there is no living with thee, nor without thee

 Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing the

 Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

 It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

 It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

 It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances

 It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

 It must be so - Plato, thou reason'st well! -/ Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, / This longing after immortality?

 Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves

 Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves

 Jesters do often prove prophets.


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