Consider the random Dirichlet partition of the interval into n fragments at temperature θ > 0. Some statistical features of this random discrete distribution are recalled, together with explicit results on the law of its size-biased permutation. Using these, pre-asymptotic versions of the Ewens and Donnelly-Tavaré-Griffiths sampling formulae from finite Dirichlet partitions are computed exactly. From these, new proofs of the usual sampling formulae from random proportions with GEM(γ) distribution are supplied, when considering the Kingman limit n ↑ ∞, θ ↓ 0 1 while nθ = γ > 0 .Running title: Sampling fom Dirichlet partitions.