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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

• They are forced plants, raised in a hot-bed; and they are poor plants; they are but cucumbers after all.

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• This man [Lord Chesterfield] I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.

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• This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

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• This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed, slow rises worth, by poverty depressed.

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• This play . . . was first offered to Cibber and his brethren at Drury-Lane, and rejected; it being then carried to Rich had the effect, as was ludicrously said, of making Gay rich, and Rich gay.

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• This world where much is to be done and little to be known.

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• Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some one single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

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• Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

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• Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them.

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• Thy body is all vice, and thy mind all virtue.

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• To a poet nothing can be useless.

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• To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest or some other motive.

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• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

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• To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

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• To be unhappy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

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• To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

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• To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living.

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• To neglect, at any time, preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack.

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• To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched none that he did not adorn.

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• To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well.

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