“El patriotismo es el último refugio de los canallas.”
Variante: El patriotismo es el último refugio de los canallas".
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Frases célebres de Samuel Johnson
Frases de vida de Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Frases y Citas
The Idler, nº 11 (24 de junio de 1758). <br class="br">Fuente: En gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12050
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».
“Ser necio de nacimiento es una enfermedad incurable.”
Atribución dudosa: En el Dicc. de citas de Luis Señor, aparece atribuida a Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. <br class="br">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. <br class="br">Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 423
Samuel Johnson: Frases en inglés
“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”
Samuel Johnson libro The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Fuente: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
July 14, 1763, p. 121
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
Fuente: The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”
28 April 1778, p. 659 http://books.google.com/books?id=yYphdZ0abhUC&q=&quot;One+of+the+disadvantages+of+wine+it+makes+a+man+mistake+words+for+thoughts&quot;&pg=PA659#v=onepage <br class="br">Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II <br class="br">Fuente: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
Samuel Johnson The Idler
No. 58 (May 26, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
Fuente: The Idler; Poems
Contexto: Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance. Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
April 10, 1776, p. 305
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Recalling "what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils" April 30, 1773, p. 217
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Fuente: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
“Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?”
Fuente: The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
“New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.”
The Life of Pope
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”
Fuente: Life of Johnson, Vol 4
“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
Letter to James Boswell, October 27, 1779, p. 433
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Fuente: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
Fuente: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
“A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing.”
1783, p. 500
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
Fuente: The Life of Johnson, Vol 4
“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
Samuel Johnson London
A Review http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/jenyns.html of Soame Jenyns' A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, published in the first volume of Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces (London, 1774), p. 23
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
Samuel Johnson The Rambler
No. 2 (24 March 1750) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=2&division=div1 <br class="br">Fuente: The Rambler (1750–1752)
Fuente: Taxation No Tyranny https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Taxation_No_Tyranny (1775)
1783, p. 519
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
