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Джо́зеф А́ддисон — публицист, драматург, эстетик, политик и поэт, который стоял у истоков английского Просвещения. Аддисон оспаривает у Ричарда Стила и Даниэля Дефо звание первого журналиста в истории Европы. Помимо журнальных статей и политических стихов, его перу принадлежит популярная в XVIII веке трагедия «Катон» . Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Май 1672 – 17. Июнь 1719
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Джозеф Аддисон знаменитые цитаты

Джозеф Аддисон цитата: „Чтение для ума — то же, что физические упражнения для тела.“

Джозеф Аддисон Цитаты о мужчинах

Джозеф Аддисон цитата: „Человек отличается от всех других созданий способностью смеяться.“

Джозеф Аддисон Цитаты о любви

Джозеф Аддисон цитата: „Без постоянства не может быть ни любви, ни дружбы, ни добродетели.“

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Джозеф Аддисон: Цитаты на английском языке

“Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.”

Attributed to "Addison" in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards, p. 580, but this might be the later "Mr. Addison" who was credited with publishing Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments (1794).
Disputed

“See in what peace a Christian can die!”

Last words, to his stepson (1719), as quoted in Conjectures on Original Composition (1759) by Edward Young
Variants:
I have sent for you that you may see in what peace a Christian may die.
As quoted in The R. I. Schoolmaster, Vol. V (1859), edited by William A. Mowry and Henry Clark, p. 71
I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.
As quoted in Famous Sayings and their Authors (1906) by Edward Latham

“A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.”

This appears to be an anonymous proverb of unknown authorship, only occasionally attributed to Addison.
Misattributed

“To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.”

Joseph Addison книга Cato

Act III, scene ii.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

“If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”

Attributed to "Addison" in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards, p. 117, but this might be the later "Mr. Addison" who was credited with publishing Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments (1794).
Disputed

“Death only closes a Man's Reputation, and determines it as good or bad.”

No. 349 (10 April 1712)
Famously seen on the brothel wall in the film Easy Rider.
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.”

St. Ambrose, Si fueris Romæ, Romano vivito more as translated in Latin Proverbs and Quotations (1869) by Alfred Henderson; very commonly paraphrased as "When in Rome do as the Romans do".
Misattributed

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

The earliest attributions of this remark to anyone are in 1941, to Mortimer Adler, in How To Read A Book (1940), although this actually a paraphrased shortening of a statement in his preface: Reading — as explained (and defended) in this book — is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Misattributed

“Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget
The pale, unripened beauties of the north.”

Joseph Addison книга Cato

Act I, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

“Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.”

A translation of one of La Rochefoucauld's maxims, published posthumously in 1693. In the original: "Force gens veulent être dévots, mais personne ne veut être humble.".
Misattributed

“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”

François Fénelon, in Selections from the Writings of Fenelon: With an appendix, containing a Memoir of his Life (1829) as translated by A Lady (Eliza Lee Cabot Follen) http://books.google.com/books?id=qJ4rAAAAYAAJ, Letter 37, p. 189.
Misattributed

“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”

William Temple, in "Heads Designed for an Essay on Conversation" in The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. in Four Volumes (1757), Vol. III, p. 547.
Misattributed

“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.”

Joseph Addison книга Cato

Act II, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

“Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.”

No. 387 (24 May 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

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