Zitate von Samuel Johnson
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Die glücklichste Konversation ist eine, bei der es keinen Wettstreit gibt, keine Eitelkeiten, sondern nur einen ruhigen Austausch von Ansichten.
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, 14 Tage oder 114.913 Tage alt.
Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
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Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.
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Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.
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Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
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Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves.
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Mr Long's character is very short. It is nothing. He fills a chair. He is a man of genteel appearance, and that is all.
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Mrs Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant . . . You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society: but don't think foolishly.
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My old friend, Mrs Carter, could make a pudding, as well as translate Epictetus.
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Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
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No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
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No man ever yet became great by imitation.
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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.