Zitate von Samuel Johnson
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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, 1 Tag oder 114.900 Tage alt.
Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau
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All argument is against it [ghosts]; but all belief is for it.
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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All power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
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All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it.
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All travel has its advantages. If the traveler visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own; and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy his own.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those we cannot resemble.
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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
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Among the anfractuosities of the human mind, I know not if it may not be one, that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture.
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Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
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An acrimonious and surly republican.
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An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
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An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.
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An odd thought strikes me: - we shall receive no letters in the grave.
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Applause abates diligence.
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Are you sick or sullen?
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As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.
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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.