Frases de Samuel Johnson (403 citas, página 9)

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.”

Samuel Johnson

“Podré ser conquistado, pero no capitularé.”

Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Johnson

“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.”

Samuel Johnson

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

“Johnson observed, that "he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney."”

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Samuel Johnson

1770, p. 181
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

“[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.”

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Samuel Johnson libro The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Fuente: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 10

“It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.”

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Samuel Johnson

April 9, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.”

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Samuel Johnson The Rambler

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

“A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.”

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Samuel Johnson

April 14, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,
Path, motive, guide, original, and end.”

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Samuel Johnson

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 257

“If the man who turnips cries,
Cry not when his father dies,
'Tis a proof that he had rather
Have a turnip than his father.”

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Samuel Johnson

Fuente: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 67

“[Imlac continues] "It was never supposed that cogitation is inherent in matter, or that every particle is a thinking being. Yet, if any part of matter be devoid of thought, what part can we suppose to think? Matter can differ from matter only in form, density, bulk, motion, and direction of motion: to which of these, however varied or combined, can consciousness be annexed? To be round or square, to be solid or fluid, to be great or little, to be moved slowly or swiftly one way or another, are modes of material existence, all equally alien from the nature of cogitation. If matter be once without thought, it can only be made to think by some new modification, but all the modifications which it can admit are equally unconnected with cogitative powers."”

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Samuel Johnson libro The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Fuente: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 48

“He that thinks himself capable of astonishing may write blank verse: but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme.”

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Samuel Johnson

The Life of Milton
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)

“If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.”

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Samuel Johnson

August 15, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

“I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.”

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Samuel Johnson

Seward, 617
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana

“A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,
Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,
And touched nothing that he did not adorn.”

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Samuel Johnson

Epitaph on Goldsmith
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."… There was another fine passage too which he struck out: "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over; for I found that generally what was new was false."”

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Samuel Johnson

1779
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty.”

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Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 57 (2 October 1750)
The Rambler (1750–1752)

“Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,
For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.”

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Samuel Johnson

Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre (1747)

“Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.”

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Samuel Johnson

1776 http://books.google.com/books?id=fcIIAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Melancholy+indeed+should+be+diverted+by+every+means+but+drinking%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.”

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Samuel Johnson

Tour to the Hebrides, Sept. 30, 1773
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.”

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Samuel Johnson

Of John Campbell, as quoted by Joseph Wharton; reported in "John Campbell", Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)

“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us.”

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Samuel Johnson The Idler

No. 80 (October 27, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)

“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”

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Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 106 (23 March 1751)
The Rambler (1750–1752)

“I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.”

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Samuel Johnson

March 23, 1783
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; — one, that I have lost all the names, — the other, that I have spent all the money.”

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Samuel Johnson

1781, p. 477, Referring to subscribers to his edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Notes (1765)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.”

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Samuel Johnson

June 1784, p. 526 http://books.google.com/books?id=FMoIAAAAQAAJ&q=&quot;Courage+is+a+quality+so+necessary+for+maintaining+virtue+that+it+is+always+respected+even+when+it+is+associated+with+vice&quot;&pg=PA319#v=onepage Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.”

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Samuel Johnson libro The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Fuente: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 29

“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”

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Samuel Johnson

Taxation No Tyranny (1775)

“A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.”

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Samuel Johnson

1780, p. 446
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV