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Es kommt selten vor, daß eines Mannes Geschäft gleichzeitig sein Vergnügen ist.
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, 6 Monate, 10 Tage oder 114.878 Tage alt.
Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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Excellence, in any department, can only be attained by the labor of a lifetime. It is not purchased at a lesser price.
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Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
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Fleet-street has a very animated appearance; but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing-Cross.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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George the First knew nothing, and desired to know nothing; did nothing, and desired to do nothing; and the only good thing that is told of him is, that he wished to restore the crown to its hereditary successor.
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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
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Gratitude is the fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an historian . . . imagination is not required in any high degree.
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Great works are achieved not by strength but by perseverance.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Happiness is nothing if it is not known, and very little if it is not envied.
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He [God] will not leave his promises unfulfilled, nor his threats unexecuted . . . Neither can he want power to execute his purposes; he who spoke, and the world was made, can speak again, and it will perish.