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Die Gesetze werden nach den Sitten und Erfordernissen bestimmter Zeiten geschaffen und es ist purer Zufall, wenn sie länger währen als ihre Ursachen.
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, 5 Tage oder 114.904 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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[Boswell] Sir, what is poetry? [Johnson] Why Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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[Boswell] So, Sir, you laugh at schemes of political improvement. [Johnson] Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
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[Elphinston] What, have you not read it through? [Johnson] No, Sir, do you read books through?
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[Goldsmith] seeming to repine at the success of Beattie's Essay onTruth-'Here's such a stir (said he) about a fellow that has written one book, and I have written many.' Ah, Doctor (says his friend [Johnson]), there go two-and-forty sixpences you know to one guinea.
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[Johnson] As I cannot be sure that I have fulfilled the conditions on which salvation is granted, I am afraid I may be one of those who shall be damned (looking dismally). [dr adams] What do you mean by damned? [johnson] (passionately and loudly) Sent to Hell, Sir, and punished everlastingly.
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[Johnson] I had no notion that I was wrong or irreverent to my tutor. [Boswell] That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. [Johnson] No, Sir; stark insensibility.
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A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being whose mind is not debauched will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire.
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A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.
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A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
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A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.
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A hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea so laces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning.
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A jest breaks no bones.
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A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.