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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

• Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

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• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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• When a poet mentions the spring we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers.

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• When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

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• When I observed he was a fine cat, saying, 'Why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this'; and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, 'but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed.'

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• When I survey my past life, I discover nothing but a barren waste of time, with disorders of the mind very near to madness.

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• When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

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• When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose; Each change of many-coloured life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new.

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• When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

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• When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

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• When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

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• Who can run the race with Death?

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• Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

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• Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself.

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• Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

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• Why, that is, because, dearest, you're a dunce.

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• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

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• Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

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• Without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

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• Words are but the signs of ideas.

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