1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 september 1709 och dog den 13 december 1784 - brittisk författare, skrev ett lexikon över det engelska språket.
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en He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence
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en He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.
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en To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets
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en Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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en Those that have loved longest love best.
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en Words are but the signs of ideas.
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en When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped
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en A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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en Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
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en The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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en A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
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en To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
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en It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age
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en Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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en Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him
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