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„Druhé manželstvo: triumf nádejí nad skúsenosťami.“
Varianta: Manželstvo je triumf nádeje nad skúsenosťou.
Samuel Johnson: Citáty v angličtine
1783, p. 501
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
The Adventurer, # 84 (August 25, 1753) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12050
Varianta: Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Vol. II, p. 406
Letters to and from Dr. Samuel Johnson
“Blown about with every wind of criticism.”
1784
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“The insolence of wealth will creep out.”
April 18, 1778, p. 400
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
1754
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth
“And sure th' Eternal Master found
His single talent well employ'd.”
Stanza 7
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)
“I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.”
1775
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
March 1781, p. 465
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.”
1777
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed —
Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed.”
London: A Poem (1738) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/london2.html, lines 176–177
Quoted in the "Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opinions and Occasional Reflections" of Sir John Hawkins (1787-1789) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 11, edited by George Birkbeck Hill
“The first years of man must make provision for the last.”
Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 27
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
April 5, 1776, p. 302
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
No. 14 (5 May 1750) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=14&division=div1
The Rambler (1750–1752)
“That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.”
1770, p. 181
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“He left the name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.”
Zdroj: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 221
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Zdroj: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 316
The Life of Cowley
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
March 1759, p. 97
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”
December 21, 1762
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
October 19, 1769, p. 170
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.”
July 20, 1762
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I