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Ein gewisses Maß an Begehren gibt dem Leben erst seinen Schwung.
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, 19 Tage oder 114.918 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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Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of 'The Natural History of Iceland', from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus:-'chap. lxxii. Concerning snakes. There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.'
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Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known!
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru.
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Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope and afterward rewarded by joy.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
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Long-expected one-and-twenty, Ling'ring year, at length is flown; Pride and pleasure, pomp and plenty, Great [Sir John], are now your own.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.