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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

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”

Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26

“Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.”

1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.”

November 1784, p. 566
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.”

Pitt's Reply to Walpole, Speech, March 6, 1741. This is the composition of Johnson, founded on some note or statement of the actual speech. Johnson said, "That speech I wrote in a garret, in Exeter Street." Boswell: Life of Johnson, 1741
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.”

Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 13; variant with modernized spelling: Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

“He who praises everybody praises nobody.”

Johnson's Works (1787), vol. XI, p. 216; This set included the Life of Samuel Johnson by Sir John Hawkins

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

Vol. I, p. 137
Letters to and from Dr. Samuel Johnson
Varianta: The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”

Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26

“Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!”

October 23, 1773
Ordering a glass of whisky for himself
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

“Was ever poet so trusted before?”

1774
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.”

Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 151 (27 August 1751). http://books.google.com/books?id=VvhDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22avarice+is+generally+the+last+passion+of+those+lives+of+which+the+first+part+has+been+squandered+in+pleasure+and+the+second+devoted+to+ambition%22&pg=PA262#v=onepage
The Rambler (1750–1752)

“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”

Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 29

“Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.”

September 23, 1777, p. 363
A toast made by Johnson, as Boswell states, "when in company with some very grave men at Oxford".
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“It might as well be said, "Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat."”

In response to a line of a tragedy that went 'Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free." June 1784
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.”

Zdroj: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Line added to Goldsmith's Deserted Village

“He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.”

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

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