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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 Virtue is too often merely local. |
| Walpole was a minister given by the King to the people: -- /Pitt was a minister given by the people to the King. |
| Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress? |
| Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means |
| We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty |
| We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure |
| We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor, |
| We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us |
| We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. |
| We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. |
| We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him |
| We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember |
| We could not have had a better dinner had there been a Synod of Cooks. |
| We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules |
| We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves: how often we alter our minds, we do not always remark; because the change is sometimes made imperceptibly and |
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