Samuel Johnson: Citações em tendência (página 2)
Frases em tendência de Samuel Johnson · Leia as últimas citações e frases curtas na coleção“A verdadeira arte da memória é a arte da atenção.”
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
The idler - Página 123 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=3SQJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123, Samuel Johnson - Printed for T. Davies, 1767
“As grandes obras são executadas, não pela força, mas pela perseverança.”
Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance
The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Vol. II, Página 15 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=hCcPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15, de Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Publicado por Jones, 1825
Variante: Os grandes feitos são conseguidos não pela força, mas pela perseverança.
“Aquele que elogia a todos, a ninguém elogia.”
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
citado em "The World's Greatest Wacky One-Line Jokes" - página 88 - Bob Phillips - Harvest House Publishers, 2005, ISBN 0736914269, 9780736914260 - 124 páginas
“Uma promessa, uma grande promessa, é a alma de um anúncio.”
Promise , large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
The idler - Página 225 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=wSQJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA225, Samuel Johnson - Printed for T. Davies, 1767
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson - Página 80 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=k90DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA80, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1807
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
The Rambler: In four volumes.. - Página 147 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=YyUJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA147, Samuel Johnson - W. Strahan [and several others], 1784
“Cada citação contribui com algo para a estabilidade e o alargamento da língua.”
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
A dictionary of the English language - página 18 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=03Q7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PT18, Samuel Johnson - 1768
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library
The rambler - Página 2 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-MhVtAa2b-wC&pg=PA2, Samuel Johnson - Longman, 1793
“A linguagem é a roupagem de pensamento.”
Language is the dress of thought.
Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the English poets: Volume 1 - Página 149 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=SHEJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA149, Samuel Johnson - Printed by J. Nichols; for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, ... [and 24 others], 1779
“Aquele que faz de si próprio uma besta se livra da dor de ser um homem”
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
citado em "Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale" (1809; em Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 333, edited by George Birkbeck Hill; na musica "Bat Country" da banda Avenged Sevenfold ; e no jogo Amnesia : A Machine for Pigs.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
citado em "The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published." - Página 233 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=HeINAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA233, James Boswell - 1791 - 516 páginas
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“O amor é a sabedoria dos loucos e a loucura dos sábios.”
love... it was the wisdom of a fool, and the folly of the wise
citado em Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq: with a collection of his genuine ... - Página 154 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=RswJk2PH6ooC&pg=PA154, William Cook - R. Phillips, 1805
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