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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 No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. |
| No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in |
| Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. |
| Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false |
| Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. |
| One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. |
| Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. |
| Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible. |
| Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them. |
| Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. |
| Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. |
| Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated . . . |
| Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. |
| Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters. |
| Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
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Dates (9517 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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