Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Samuel Johnson:
Der Mensch kann gegen seinen Willen überzeugt, aber nicht erfreut werden.
Informationen über Samuel Johnson
Gelehrter, Lexikograf, Schriftsteller, "The vanity of human wishes", "London", "Die Debatten des Senats zu Liliput", "History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia" (England, 1709 - 1784).
Samuel Johnson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Samuel Johnson wäre heute 314 Jahre, 7 Monate, 1 Tag oder 114.900 Tage alt.
Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
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Dear Bathurst (said he to me one day) was a man to my very heart's content: he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a whig; he was a very good hater.
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
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Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
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Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. It would not be terrible, though I were to be detained some time here.
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Dull. To make dictionaries is dull work.
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Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.
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Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.
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Every man is of importance to himself.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
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Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
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