Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Samuel Johnson:
Es erweist sich, daß das, was Weltkenntnis genannt wird, die Menschen eher schlauer als gut macht.
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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Weitere 565 Zitate von Samuel Johnson
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Still raise for good the supplicating voice, But leave to heaven the measure and the choice.
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Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
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Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.
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Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to happiness.
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Talking of the Comedy of 'The Rehearsal,' he said, 'It has not wit enough to keep it sweet.' This was easy; - he therefore caught himself, and pronounced a more rounded sentence; 'It has not vitality enough to preserve it from putrefaction.'
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That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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The black dog I hope always to resist, and in time to drive, though I am deprived of almost all those that used to help me . . . When I rise, my breakfast is solitary, the black dog waits to share it, from breakfast to dinner he continues barking, except that Dr Brocklesby for a little keeps him at a distance . . . Night comes at last, and some hours of restlessness and confusion bring me again to a day of solitude. What shall exclude the black dog from a habitation like this?
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The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species; to remark general properties and appearances: he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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The father of English criticism.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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The first years of man make provision for the last.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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The general story of mankind will evince that lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.
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The great source of pleasure is variety. Uniformity must tire at last, though it be uniformity of excellence. We love to expect; and, when expectation is disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.