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

Joseph Addison · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Joseph Addison wäre heute 352 Jahre, 4 Monate, 14 Tage oder 128.701 Tage alt.

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

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

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• Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

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• See in what peace a Christian can die.

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• Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

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• Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.

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• Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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• Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

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• The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

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• The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

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• The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several reflections on the greatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that the Thames was the noblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.

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• The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

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• The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.

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• The truth of it is, learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as if finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man then thousand times more insufferalbe by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

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• The woman that deliberates is lost.

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• There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

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• There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

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• There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

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• There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

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• There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and . . . there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.

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• These widows, Sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.

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