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Samuel Johnson, LL.D. bol anglický básnik a esejista.

✵ 18. september 1709 – 13. december 1784
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Samuel Johnson citát: „Zachovať si svoje tajomstvo je múdrosť, ale očakávať, že ho zachovajú ostatní, je hlúposť.“

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„Druhé manželstvo: triumf nádejí nad skúsenosťami.“

Varianta: Manželstvo je triumf nádeje nad skúsenosťou.

Samuel Johnson: Citáty v angličtine

“I am glad that he thanks God for anything.”

1755
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”

June 1784, p. 545
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.”

Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 12

“He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.”

1784
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”

On the subject of ghosts, March 31, 1778, p. 373
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.”

Prayers and Meditations, Against Inquisitive and Perplexing Thoughts (1785)

“Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.”

January 9, 1758
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“As with my hat upon my head
I walk'd along the Strand,
I there did meet another man
With his hat in his hand.”

George Steevens, 310
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana

“I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.”

Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 3

“LEXICOGRAPHER — A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.”

Samuel Johnson kniha A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.”

July 31, 1763, p. 132. [Several editions have the variant "hind legs".]
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.”

Kearsley, 606
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana

“An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.”

Zdroj: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 293

“That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.”

Samuel Johnson kniha A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth

“A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.”

October 5, 1773
Recounted as a common saying of physicians at the time.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

“Officious, innocent, sincere,
Of every friendless name the friend.”

Stanza 2
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)

“A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.”

1754, p. 72 (n. 4)
Referring to critics
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

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