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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

“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”

Actually said by Thomas Cooper, a U.S. politician.
Misattributed

“No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.”

On Oliver Goldsmith1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.”

Letter to Hester Thrale (5 July 1783) http://books.google.com/books?id=8JuiYLGldcsC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=%22samuel+johnson%22+few+attacks+ridicule+invective+noise+provoke&source=web&ots=HMST_SM18L&sig=xovCcC2lKiTX9V0p61QvIC_yHW0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

“This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.”

1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.”

The Life of Cowley http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lvwal10h.htm
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)

“He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it.”

1777
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon, of loud noise but little danger.”

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=yEA_AQAAMAAJ&q=%22small+debts+are+like+small+shot+they+are+rattling+on+every+side+and+can+scarcely+be+escaped+without+a+wound+great+debts+are+like+cannon+of+loud+noise+but+little+danger%22&pg=PA189#v=onepage to Joseph Simpson, circa 1759
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.”

April 15, 1778, p. 393
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.”

Feb. 15, 1766, p. 145
Said of Rousseau and Voltaire
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

“He was a very good hater.”

Zdroj: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 83

“Wretched un-idea'd girls.”

1752
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“I refute it thus.”

August 6, 1763, p. 134
Said as he kicked a stone, speaking of Berkeley's "ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter".
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.”

Samuel Johnson kniha A Dictionary of the English Language

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
Preface http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“Enlarge my life with multitude of days!”

In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.
Zdroj: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 255

“[S]uch is the delight of mental superiority, that none on whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss.”

The Rambler, No. 150 (Sat 24 Aug 1751). http://www.yalejohnson.com/frontend/sda_viewer?n=106855 See also The Yale Book of Quotations, Samuel Johnson 3 (2006)

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