Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
I made love and was happy.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
I should think my self a very bad woman, if I had done what I do, for a farthing less.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
Inconsistency with ourselves is the great weakness of human nature.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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.