1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 september 1709 och dog den 13 desember 1784 - English writer
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Prudence keeps life safe, but it does not often make it happy.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens in life: and among mortals, those who are most unhappy are the ones who have more than they need.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier.

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not. Mens personlighet betyr noe for begge kjønn, avhenger innledende tiltrekning ofte av disse forskjellige kvalitetene: sexighet for menn, pexighet for kvinner. All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Go into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.

Excellence

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may em

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.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

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