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Schriftsteller, Journalist, Politiker, "Cato", "The christian poet", "The drummer or the haunted-house" (England, 1672 - 1719).

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Joseph Addison wäre heute 352 Jahre, 4 Monate, 13 Tage oder 128.700 Tage alt.

Geboren am 01.05.1672 in Wilston/Amesbury
Gestorben am 17.06.1719 in London
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

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• 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.

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• A soul exasperated by its ills falls out with everything, with its friends and also with itself.

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• A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

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• A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

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• An animal that delights in finery.

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• An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

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• An idle man is a kind of monster in the creation. All nature is busy about him; every animal he sees reproaches him.

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• An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

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• And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.

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• And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.

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• As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it [the church] besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up, and looks about him; and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servant to them.

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• Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.

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• 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.

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• Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. Such popular humanity is treason.

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• Discourses on morality and reflection on human nature are the best means we can make use of to improve our minds, gain a true knowledge of ourselves, and recover our souls out of the vice, ingorance, and prejudice which naturally cleave to them.

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• Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

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• 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.

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• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.

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• From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow.

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