Frases de Samuel Johnson (403 citas, página 12)

Variante de la traducción: «Las diminutas cadenas de los hábitos son generalmente demasiado pequeñas para sentirlas, hasta que llegan a ser demasiado fuertes para romperlas».

“Ninguno, imitando a otros, llegó a ser auténticamente grande… y dejó de ser él.”

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“Tenga lo que tenga, gaste menos.”

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“Podré ser conquistado, pero no capitularé.”

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“Aquél que alaba a todo el mundo no alaba a nadie.”

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“A las personas más a menudo hay que recordarles que informarles.”

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“El conocimiento puede ser de dos especies: o bien conocemos un tema nosotros mismos, o bien sabemos donde encontrar información sobre él.”

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“Es mejor vivir rico que morir siéndolo.”

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“Si estás solo, no estés desocupado; si estás desocupado, no estés solo.”

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“Es raro que haya tan pocos lectores en este mundo, pero tantas lecturas. La gente en general no lee por propia voluntad si son capaces de encontrar cualquier otra cosa que los entretenga.”

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“De todos los ruidos, creo que la música es el menos desagradable.”

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“Una mosca, señor, puede picar a un caballo majestuoso y hacerlo estremecerse de dolor; pero la primera seguirá siendo nada más que un insecto, y el segundo, empero, un caballo.”

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Refiriéndose a los críticos)

“Los diccionarios son como los relojes: el peor es mejor que ninguno, pero del mejor uno no puede esperar que sea del todo preciso.”

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“Hay pocas cosas que resulten imposibles de la mano de la paciencia y de la diligencia.”

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“Los ejemplos tienen más fuerza que los preceptos.”

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“Patrocinador: Alguien que tolera, apoya o protege a otros. Usualmente, un desgraciado que apoya con insolencia, y es pagado con adulación.”

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“Ser necio de nacimiento es una enfermedad incurable.”

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Atribución dudosa: En el Dicc. de citas de Luis Señor, aparece atribuida a Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Fuente: "Frases célebres de hombres célebres" https://books.google.es/books?id=3qJPAAAAMAAJ&q=%C2%ABSer+necio+de+nacimiento+es+una+enfermedad+incurable%C2%BB.&dq=%C2%ABSer+necio+de+nacimiento+es+una+enfermedad+incurable%C2%BB.&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimyuPdlMbiAhWFyqQKHY3VBA8Q6AEILjAB Compilado por Manuel Pumarega. Editorial México, 1949 (3ª ed.); página 320. Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 423

Samuel Johnson: Frases en inglés

“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”

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Actually said by Thomas Cooper, a U.S. politician.
Misattributed

“No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.”

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On Oliver Goldsmith1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.”

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Letter to Hester Thrale (5 July 1783) http://books.google.com/books?id=8JuiYLGldcsC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=%22samuel+johnson%22+few+attacks+ridicule+invective+noise+provoke&source=web&ots=HMST_SM18L&sig=xovCcC2lKiTX9V0p61QvIC_yHW0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

“I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.”

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1769
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.”

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1735
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,
And wake from ignorance the Western World.”

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

“This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.”

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

“The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.”

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The Life of Cowley http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lvwal10h.htm Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)

“He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it.”

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1777
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon, of loud noise but little danger.”

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Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=yEA_AQAAMAAJ&q=%22small+debts+are+like+small+shot+they+are+rattling+on+every+side+and+can+scarcely+be+escaped+without+a+wound+great+debts+are+like+cannon+of+loud+noise+but+little+danger%22&pg=PA189#v=onepage to Joseph Simpson, circa 1759 Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.”

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April 15, 1778, p. 393
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.”

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Prayers and Meditations, No. 1770 (1785)

“He that thinks with more extent than another will want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?
Yet vanity inclines us to find faults any where rather than in ourselves. He that reads and grows no wiser, seldom suspects his own deficiency; but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood?”

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Samuel Johnson The Idler

No. 70 (August 18, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)

“The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.”

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Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 43 (14 August 1750)
The Rambler (1750–1752)

“My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.”

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May 1781
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Here closed in death th' attentive eyes
That saw the manners in the face.”

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Epitaph on Hogarth (1786)

“Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.”

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Feb. 15, 1766, p. 145
Said of Rousseau and Voltaire
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

“Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.”

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May 9, 1778, p. 409
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“He was a very good hater.”

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Fuente: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 83

“Wretched un-idea'd girls.”

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1752
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“I refute it thus.”

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August 6, 1763, p. 134
Said as he kicked a stone, speaking of Berkeley's "ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter".
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“If you are tired of London, you are tired of life. ”

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“I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.”

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Samuel Johnson libro A Dictionary of the English Language

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote. Preface http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“Enlarge my life with multitude of days!”

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In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.
Fuente: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 255

“The change of religion in Scotland, eager and vehement as it was, raised an epidemical enthusiasm, compounded of sullen scrupulousness and warlike ferocity, which, in a people whom idleness resigned to their own thoughts, and who conversing only with each other, suffered no dilution of their zeal from the gradual influx of new opinions, was long transmitted in its full strength from the old to the young, but by trade and intercourse with England, is now visibly abating, and giving way too fast to their laxity of practice and indifference of opinion, in which men, not sufficiently instructed to find the middle point, too easily shelter themselves from rigour and constraint.”

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Samuel Johnson libro A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

p. 8. https://books.google.com/books?id=-6JfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA8 A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775)

“Of the proportion, which the product of any region bears to the people, an estimate is commonly made according to the pecuniary price of the necessities of life; which is never certain, because it supposes what is far from truth, that the value of money is always the same, and so measures an unknown quantity by an uncertain standard. It is competent enough when the markets of the same country, at different times, and those times not too distant, are to be compared; but of very little use for the purpose of making one nation acquainted with the state of another.”

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Samuel Johnson libro A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

pp. 366-367. https://books.google.com/books?id=-6JfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA366 A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775)

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”

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“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”

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“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”

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Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 68 (10 November 1750)
The Rambler (1750–1752)

“[S]uch is the delight of mental superiority, that none on whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss.”

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The Rambler, No. 150 (Sat 24 Aug 1751). http://www.yalejohnson.com/frontend/sda_viewer?n=106855 See also The Yale Book of Quotations, Samuel Johnson 3 (2006)