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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

“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”

Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”

July 14, 1763, p. 121
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
Zdroj: The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2

“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”

28 April 1778, p. 659 http://books.google.com/books?id=yYphdZ0abhUC&q="One+of+the+disadvantages+of+wine+it+makes+a+man+mistake+words+for+thoughts"&pg=PA659#v=onepage
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Zdroj: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.”

Samuel Johnson The Idler

No. 58 (May 26, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
Zdroj: The Idler; Poems
Kontext: Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance. Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

“Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”

Recalling "what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils" April 30, 1773, p. 217
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Zdroj: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

“New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.”

The Life of Pope
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)

“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”

Letter to James Boswell, October 27, 1779, p. 433
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Zdroj: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

“A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing.”

1783, p. 500
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
Zdroj: The Life of Johnson, Vol 4

“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”

A Review http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/jenyns.html of Soame Jenyns' A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, published in the first volume of Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces (London, 1774), p. 23

“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”

Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 2 (24 March 1750) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=2&division=div1
Zdroj: The Rambler (1750–1752)

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