Samuel Johnson: Frases em inglês

Frases em inglês.
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“There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.”

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Samuel Johnson

Fonte: Taxation No Tyranny https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Taxation_No_Tyranny (1775)

“As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.”

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Samuel Johnson

1783, p. 519
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence."

(, 1757.)”

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Samuel Johnson

Fonte: Works of Samuel Johnson

“I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.”

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Samuel Johnson

“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”

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Samuel Johnson

“Language is the dress of thought.”

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Samuel Johnson

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

“Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

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Samuel Johnson

September 19, 1777, p. 351, often misquoted as being hanged in the morning.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Fonte: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

“Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.”

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Samuel Johnson

1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.”

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Samuel Johnson

Letter to Boswell. Dec. 8, 1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.”

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Samuel Johnson The Idler

No. 39 (January 13, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)

“I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.”

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Samuel Johnson

April 15, 1778, p. 392
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III