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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

• To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

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• Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.

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• Truth, Sir, is a cow, that will yield such people [sceptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

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• Unmoved though witlings sneer and rivals rail; Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

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• Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

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• Want of tenderness, heal ways alleged, was want of parts, and was no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

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• Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?

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• We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.

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• We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us.

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• We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich, beyond the dreams of avarice.

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• We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure.

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• We can never describe what we have not seen.

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• We could not have had a better dinner had there been a Synod of Cooks.

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• We know our will is free, and there's an end on't.

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• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

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• We would all be idle if we could.

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• Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.

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• What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

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• Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

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