1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 september 1709 och dog den 13 december 1784 - English writer
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 Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] . . . `Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.'

 Dublin, though a place much worse than London, is not so bad as Iceland.

 Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy

 Every art has its terms, and every kind of instruction its proper style; the gravity of common critics may be tedious, but is less despicable than childish merriment

 Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not know what is best and fittest, or because our knowledge is at the time of action not present to the mind

 Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place

 Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

 Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end

 Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis

 Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

 Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler

 Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection

 Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment

 Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

 Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier.


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