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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, 5 Monate, 10 Tage oder 128.728 Tage alt.

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

• Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

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• He more had pleased us, had he pleased us less.
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• He who would pass the declining years of his life with honor and comfort should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.

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• Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

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• I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the Middle of Winter.

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• I made love and was happy.

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

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• I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.

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• I should think my self a very bad woman, if I had done what I do, for a farthing less.

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• Ideas in the mind are the transcript of the world; words are the transcript of ideas; and writing and printing are the transcript of words.

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• If I can in any way contribute to the diversion or improvement of the country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

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

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• In all thy humours, 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.

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• In Reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing, as they shine: 'The hand that made us is divine.'

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• Inconsistency with ourselves is the great weakness of human nature.

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• Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

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• Is it not wonderful that the love of the animal parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

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• It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.

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• It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another who has not distinguished himself by his own performance.

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

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