Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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Joseph Addison
A soul exasperated by its ills falls out with everything, with its friends and also with itself.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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Joseph Addison
An animal that delights in finery.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.
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Joseph Addison
And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. Such popular humanity is treason.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.
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Joseph Addison
From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
He more had pleased us, had he pleased us less.