Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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Joseph Addison
See in what peace a Christian can die.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Joseph Addison
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
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Joseph Addison
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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Joseph Addison
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
The woman that deliberates is lost.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
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Joseph Addison
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
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Joseph Addison
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Joseph Addison
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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Joseph Addison
These widows, Sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.
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Joseph Addison
Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship.
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Joseph Addison
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.