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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, 9 Tage oder 128.727 Tage alt.

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

• It must be so-Plato, thou reason'st well! - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

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• It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

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• Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

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• Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the facility of laughter.

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• Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interfere with the first it should be entirely neglected. But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applauses of the public.

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• Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

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• Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent . . . Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment: cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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• Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.

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• Music can noble hints impart, engender fury, kindle love, with unsuspected eloquence can move and manage all the man with secret art.

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• Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

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• Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

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• Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

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• Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconstancy.

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• One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

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• One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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• Our delight in any particular study, art of science rises in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

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• Our disputants put me in mind of the skuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.

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• 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.

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• Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

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• Reading is for the mind what exercise is for the body.

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