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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 315 Jahre, 6 Monate, 17 Tage oder 115.250 Tage alt.

Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau

• The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

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• The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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• The world, in its best state, is nothing more than a larger assembly of beings, combining to counterfeit happiness which they do not feel.

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• The worst of Warburton is, that he has a rage for saying something, when there's nothing to be said.

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• Their [the Scots'] learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

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• Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.

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• There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

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• There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, shewing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public.

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• There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not recollect where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same in attention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, 'His memory is going.'

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• There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

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• There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

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• There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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• There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

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• There is perhaps no class of men, to whom the precept given by the Apostle to his converts against too great confidence in their understandings, may be more properly inculcated, than those who are dedicated to the profession of literature.

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• There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

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• There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

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• There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice, And wake from ignorance the Western World.

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• There was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate.

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• They [the Letters of Lord Chesterfield] teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

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