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«Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Ridicule
| Keywords:
attacking, made use of, praiseworthy, ridicule
«He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.»
«Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.»
«Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
impertinence, pedantry, qualify, sprightlier, sprightly
«The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Wonder
| Keywords:
on the whole, render, scattered
«True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.»
«Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
in writing, method, provided, requisite, requisites, talk to
«An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
decoration, decorations, extravagantly, indolent
«A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
endued with, fable, Irresistible Force, void of
«Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
Allegories, allegory, like so, well-chosen
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