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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 So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere

 Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

 Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied, must admit those of fancy

 Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil

 Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

 Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

 Sorrow: a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away

 Still raise for good the supplicating voice, / But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

 Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

 Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

 Such is the constitution of man that labor may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body

 Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute

 Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change; the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again

 Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw be

 Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.


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