Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the facility of laughter.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
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Joseph Addison
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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Joseph Addison
Reading is for the mind what exercise is for the body.
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Joseph Addison
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Joseph Addison
Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.