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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 The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. |
| The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. |
| The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; ours has severest virtue for its basis, and such a friendship ends not but with life. |
| The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures |
| The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. |
| The Hand that made us is divine. |
| The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas. |
| The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. |
| The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane. |
| The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair |
| The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. |
| The post of honour is a private station. |
| The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action |
| The secret of success in conversation is to be able to disagree without being disagreeable |
| The spacious firmament on high, / And all the blue ethereal sky, / And spangled heavens, a shining frame, / Their great Original proclaim. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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