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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 I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.

 I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good

 I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian

 I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober

 I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

 I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

 I know not, that by living dissections any discovery has been made by which a single malady is more easily cured.

 I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

 I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

 I put my hat upon my head, / I walked into the Strand, / And there I met another man / Whose hat was in his hand.

 I refute it thus.

 I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

 I shall long to see the miseries of the world, since the sight of them is necessary to happiness.

 I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

 I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min


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