Samuel Johnson cytaty (389 cytatów, strona 8)

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. (ang.)
Źródło: biografia Life of Johnson vol. II, James Boswell, 1791

Samuel Johnson: Cytaty po angielsku

“There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not remember where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, "His memory is going."”

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Samuel Johnson

1783, p. 501
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“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.”

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Samuel Johnson

The Adventurer, # 84 (August 25, 1753) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12050 <br class="br">Wariant: Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.”

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Samuel Johnson

“Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”

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Samuel Johnson

Vol. II, p. 406
Letters to and from Dr. Samuel Johnson

“Blown about with every wind of criticism.”

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Samuel Johnson

1784
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“The insolence of wealth will creep out.”

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Samuel Johnson

April 18, 1778, p. 400
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it.
A feeble government, eluded Laws,
A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles,
And all the maladies of stinking states.”

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Samuel Johnson

The Tragedy of Irene (1749), Act I, Sc. 1

“Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.”

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Samuel Johnson

1754
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“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.”

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Samuel Johnson książka A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth

“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”

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Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 148 (17 August 1751)
The Rambler (1750–1752)

“And sure th' Eternal Master found
His single talent well employ'd.”

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Samuel Johnson

Stanza 7
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)

“Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.”

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Samuel Johnson

1743
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.”

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Samuel Johnson

1775
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.”

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Samuel Johnson

March 1781, p. 465
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.”

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Samuel Johnson

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.”

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Samuel Johnson

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.”

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Samuel Johnson

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.”

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Samuel Johnson książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Źródło: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 27

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”

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Samuel Johnson

April 5, 1776, p. 302
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.”

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Samuel Johnson The Rambler

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 <br class="br">The Rambler (1750–1752)

“That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.”

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Samuel Johnson

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.”

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Samuel Johnson

Źródło: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 221

“EXCISE — A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.”

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Samuel Johnson książka A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)