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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

“It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.”

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.

“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

“Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.”

Samuel Johnson kniha A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

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)

“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

“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”

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.”

Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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

“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

“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”

December 21, 1762
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.”

July 20, 1762
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

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