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Beim Golfen kann man die Vorzüge des Alters beanspruchen und sich die Spielereien der Kindheit bewahren.
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, 11 Tage oder 114.910 Tage alt.
Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
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Weitere 565 Zitate von Samuel Johnson
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Hope: A species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
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How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
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I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
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I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
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I am sorry I have not learned to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness and consolidates society.
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I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
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I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children, and those who marry early with their partners.
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I believe that is true. The dogs don't know how to write trifles with dignity.
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I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
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I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it.
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I directed them to bring a bundle [of hay] into the room, and slept upon it in my riding coat. Mr Boswell, being more delicate, laid himself sheets with hay over and under him, and lay in linen like a gentleman.
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I do not know, Sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.
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I do not much like to see a Whig in any dress; but I hate to see a Whig in a parson's gown.
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I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.
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I dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinions and sentiments Ifind delight.