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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 It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species

 It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends

 It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination

 It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

 It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous

 It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest those who can once charge him with partiality, should indulge themselves afterwards in disbelieving him at pleasure

 It is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state pregnant with latent possibilities of excellence; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion, and to observe how they sometimes sudde

 It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

 It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

 It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility

 It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

 It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

 It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain

 It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

 It is well known, that many things appear plausible in speculation, which can never be reduced to practice; and that of the numberless projects that have flattered mankind with theoretical speciousness, few have served any other purpose than to show


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