1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
To build is to be robbed
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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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To do nothing is in every man's power
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To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage
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To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength
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To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labor, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to
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To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others: in conversation we nat
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
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To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough
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To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
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To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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