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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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Samuel Johnson citáty a výroky

„Druhé manželstvo: triumf nádejí nad skúsenosťami.“

Varianta: Manželstvo je triumf nádeje nad skúsenosťou.

Samuel Johnson: Citáty v angličtine

“The endearing elegance of female friendship.”

Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 46

“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”

Actually said by Charles de Gaulle, on leaving his presidency, as quoted inLife' (9 May 1969)
Misattributed

“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.”

Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 11

“Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.”

Zdroj: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 308

“Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.”

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

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

September 17, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

“NETWORK — Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.”

Samuel Johnson kniha A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.”

May 1776 http://books.google.com/books?id=8DcUAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Sir+you+have+but+two+topicks+yourself+and+me+I+am+sick+of+both%22&pg=PA53#v=onepage, p. 313
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.”

1772
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.”

When asked by Maurice Morgann whom he considered to be the better poet — Smart or Derrick, 1783, p. 504
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.”

1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“English superiority and American obedience.”

As quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-55786-664-3 (1994), by Robert DeMaria, Jr., Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 252–256.

“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.”

September 20, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

“Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.”

Zdroj: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 1; comparable to: "All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue", Thomas Warton, Universal Love of Pleasure

“The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.”

Northcote, 487
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana

“To a poet nothing can be useless.”

Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 10

“The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.”

Life of Milton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.”

Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 86 (12 January 1751)
The Rambler (1750–1752)

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