1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 september 1709 och dog den 13 december 1784 - English writer
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 The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. |
| The age being now past of vagrant excursion and fortuitous hostility, he was under the necessity of travelling from court to court, scorned and repulsed as a wild projector, an idle promiser of kingdoms in the clouds; nor has any part of the world y |
| The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply |
| The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear |
| The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. |
| The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration |
| The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. |
| The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. |
| The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men. |
| The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip. |
| The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature |
| The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken |
| The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated. . . |
| The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. |
| The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege of trading with the stock of other men, and of contracting debts which nothing but lucky casu |
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