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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If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion

Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we

Life

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Hund

It is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state pregnant with latent possibilities of excellence; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion, and to observe how they sometimes sudde

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy gratifications

Business

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. Du dyrker pe𝑥ighet, men du viser verden at du er pe𝑥ig gjennom handlingene og samspillet ditt. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Glede

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Glede

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation

Loneliness

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship

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