Frases de Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison, escritor y político inglés. Nació en Milston, Wiltshire el 1 de mayo de 1672 y murió en Holland House, Kensington el 17 de junio de 1719.

Hijo del decano de la catedral de Lichfield, ya en 1694 publicó un libro sobre la vida de poetas ingleses y una traducción de las Geórgicas de Virgilio. En 1699 comienza a prepararse para el servicio diplomático, para lo cual viaja por toda Europa. Escribió diarios de viaje, por ejemplo sobre Italia y también sobre la campiña inglesa, y algunas obras de teatro, como Catón y El tamborilero .

Con Richard Steele funda la revista The Spectator en 1711, donde publica su obra Los placeres de la imaginación, en 1712. También escribió para la publicación The Tatler. Aunque se destacó como ensayista, participó en el Parlamento Inglés como representante whig, y entre 1717 e 1718 fue Secretario de Estado.

✵ 1. mayo 1672 – 17. junio 1719
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Frases célebres de Joseph Addison

“La lectura es para la mente lo que el ejercicio es para el cuerpo.”

Joseph Addison

Fuente: Villamarin Pulido, Luis Alberto. Superación personal: Tesoro de la sabiduría- Tomo II. Editorial Luis Villamarin, 2015. ISBN 9781512274851, p. 77.

“El hombre debe considerar siempre lo que tiene antes de lo que quiere; la infelicidad viene cuando la realidad no llega.”

Joseph Addison

Fuente: Escandón, Rafael, Frases célebres para toda ocasión. Editorial Diana, 1982. ISBN 978-96-8131-285-5, p. 118.

“En verdad que el hombre no es más que una sombra, y la vida, un sueño.”

Joseph Addison

Fuente: Morales Uribe, Alberto. Historias casi ficticias. Número 44 de Colección Cultiva. Editor Cultivalibros, 2009. ISBN 9788492519767, p. 9.

“El saber, después de la virtud, es ciertamente lo que eleva a un hombre a mayor altura que otro.”

Joseph Addison

Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.

Joseph Addison Frases y Citas

“Mira en qué paz puede morir un cristiano.”

Joseph Addison

Últimas palabras <br class="br">Original: «See in what peace a Christian can die». <br class="br">Fuente: Aikin, Lucy. The Life of Joseph Addison, volumen 2. Library of English literature. Editorial Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. Página 236. https://books.google.es/books?id=xEoJAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA236&amp;dq=See+in+what+peace+a+Christian+can+die.+Joseph+Addison&amp;hl=es&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjzm9HkuObfAhVy1-AKHdPrA7QQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&amp;q=See%20in%20what%20peace%20a%20Christian%20can%20die.%20Joseph%20Addison&amp;f=false

“Pero para considerar este tema en sus luces más ridículas, los anuncios son de gran utilidad para los vulgares. En primer lugar ya que son instrumentos de la ambición. Un hombre que de ninguna manera es lo suficientemente grande para la Gazette, puede deslizarse fácilmente en los anuncios; por lo que a menudo vemos un boticario en el mismo periódico de noticias que un plenipotenciario, o a un lacayo con un embajador.”

Joseph Addison

Original: «But to consider this subject in its most ridiculous lights, advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador». <br class="br">Fuente: The Tatler n.º 224, jueves, 14 de septiembre de 1710. Addison, Joseph. The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals... Volumen 3 de The Works of Joseph Addison. Editorial Harper &amp; Brothers, 1845. Página 67. https://books.google.es/books?id=mPk7AQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA67&amp;dq=Advertisements+are+of+great+use+to+the+vulgar.+First+of+all,+as+they+are+instruments+of+ambition.+A+man+that+is+by+no+means+big+enough+for+the+Gazette,+may+easily+creep+into+the+advertisements;+by+which+means+we+often+see+an+apothecary+in+the+same+paper+of+news+with+a+plenipotentiary,+or+a+running+footman+with+an+ambassador&amp;hl=es&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjtqeWPpObfAhVG1eAKHYr6C1sQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&amp;q=Advertisements%20are%20of%20great%20use%20to%20the%20vulgar.%20First%20of%20all%2C%20as%20they%20are%20instruments%20of%20ambition.%20A%20man%20that%20is%20by%20no%20means%20big%20enough%20for%20the%20Gazette%2C%20may%20easily%20creep%20into%20the%20advertisements%3B%20by%20which%20means%20we%20often%20see%20an%20apothecary%20in%20the%20same%20paper%20of%20news%20with%20a%20plenipotentiary%2C%20or%20a%20running%20footman%20with%20an%20ambassador&amp;f=false

“No hay una cosa tan variable en la naturaleza como el tocado de una dama: en mi propia memoria, lo he visto subir y bajar más de treinta grados.”

Joseph Addison

Original: «There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady&#x27;s headdress: within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees». <br class="br">Fuente: Spectator, número 98. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volumen 3. Joseph Addison. Editor Richard Hurd. Editorial T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811. Página 227. https://books.google.es/books?id=coRjAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA227&amp;dq=There+is+not+so+variable+a+thing+in+nature+as+a+lady%27s+head-dress.+Joseph+Addison&amp;hl=es&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjXur3ztObfAhUEcBQKHbSGDFcQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&amp;q=There%20is%20not%20so%20variable%20a%20thing%20in%20nature%20as%20a%20lady&#x27;s%20head-dress.%20Joseph%20Addison&amp;f=false

“La verdadera felicidad no está confinada en ningún lugar, pero aún se encuentra en una mente contenta.”

Joseph Addison

Original: «True happiness is to no place confined, But still is found in a contented mind». <br class="br">Fuente: The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314. Volumen 1 de The Works of Joseph Addison: Complete in Three Volumes: Embracing the Whole of the &quot;Spectator. Joseph Addison. Harper &amp; Brothers, 1837. Página 289. https://books.google.es/books?id=1Z1KAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA289&amp;lpg=PA289&amp;dq=Joy+is,+above+all,+health+promotion.+Joseph+Addison&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=K1uJNCNc_Z&amp;sig=EcApzQUNAdTWH-uJs1lvW7OXoJY&amp;hl=es&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj69siqsebfAhVR1xoKHc30CrwQ6AEwCXoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=True%20happiness%20is%20to%20no%20place%20confin&#x27;d%2C%20&amp;f=false

Joseph Addison: Frases en inglés

“Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die,
And lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.”

Joseph Addison The Campaign

Fuente: The Campaign (1704), Line 152.

“Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.”

Joseph Addison

Moncure Daniel Conway, in The Sacred Anthology (Oriental) : A Book of Ethnical Scriptures 5th edition (1877), p. 386; this statement appears beneath an Arabian proverb, and Upton Sinclair later attributed it to the Qur'an, in The Cry for Justice : An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest (1915), p. 475.
Misattributed

“I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism … were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.”

Joseph Addison

No. 185 http://archive.twoaspirinsandacomedy.com/spectator/spectator.php?line=185 (2 October 1711). <br class="br">Often misquoted as &quot;To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.&quot; <br class="br">The Spectator (1711–1714)

“These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.”

Joseph Addison

No. 335 (25 March 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”

Joseph Addison

No. 475 (4 September 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?”

Joseph Addison

Samuel Johnson in The Rambler, no. 148 (17 August 1751).
Misattributed

“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and some in prosperity.”

Joseph Addison

No. 257 (25 December 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“There is not so variable a thing in Nature as a lady's head-dress.”

Joseph Addison

No. 98 (22 June 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.”

Joseph Addison

These words, sometimes attributed to Addison, are not found in his works, but in The Spectator, no. 54, he translates the following words of Socrates, as quoted in Plato's Apology: "When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know."
Misattributed

“To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.”

Joseph Addison

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer, in his "The Meaning of Life", collected in The Meaning of Life, and Other Essays (1990).
Misattributed

“Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?”

Joseph Addison libro Cato

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

“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.”

Joseph Addison

No. 73 (24 May 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

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