Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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John Quincy Adams
All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
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John Quincy Adams
Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost.
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John Quincy Adams
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.
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John Quincy Adams
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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John Quincy Adams
Despotism or unlimited sovereignty is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratic council, an oligarchical junta, and a single emperor.
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John Quincy Adams
Fiat justitia, pereat coelum [Let justice be done, though heaven fall]. My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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John Quincy Adams
The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and in more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.
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John Quincy Adams
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
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Joseph Addison
'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
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Joseph Addison
'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism.
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Joseph Addison
'Twas then great Marlbro's mighty soul was proved.
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Joseph Addison
'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.'
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Joseph Addison
A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes.
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Joseph Addison
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Joseph Addison
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without.
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Joseph Addison
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
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Joseph Addison
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
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Joseph Addison
A painted meadow, or a purling stream.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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.