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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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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned . . . A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize him and thus force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
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No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up alomst all our moments.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.
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No, Sir, I am not a botanist; and (alluding, no doubt, to his near sightedness) should I wish to become a botanist, I must first turn myself into a reptile.
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Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
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Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils.
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Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
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Oats: a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
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Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
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Of all the griefs that harrass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
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Of all the noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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Of music Dr Johnson used to say that it was the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.
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Old Times have bequeathed us a precept: To be merry and wise, but who has been able to observe it.