Zitate von Samuel Johnson
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Die Lebensweise ist die glücklichste, die uns die meisten Gelegenheiten bietet, unsere eigene Hochachtung zu gewinnen.
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, 11 Tage oder 114.879 Tage alt.
Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
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He [the poet] must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations; as a being superior to time and place.
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He has, indeed, done it very well; but it is a foolish thing well done.
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He is gone, and we are going.
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He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
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He that never thinks never can be wise.
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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
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He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
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He that tries to recommend him [Shakespeare] by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
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He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
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He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it.
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He washed himself with oriental scrupulosity.
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He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
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He who praises everybody praises nobody.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
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Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
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Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
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High people, Sir, are the best: Take a hundred ladies of quality; you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other women.
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His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.