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 longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends. Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many |
| The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking |
| The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue |
| The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion. |
| The man of affectation may, perhaps, be reclaimed, by finding how little he is likely to gain by perpetual constraint and incessant vigilance, and how much more securely he might make his way to esteem, by cultivating real, than by displaying counter |
| The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest |
| The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that he may not ascribe to himself the invention of arts generally known; weary his attention with experime |
| The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. |
| The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. |
| The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain |
| The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. |
| The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. |
| The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. |
| The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together. |
| The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope |
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