1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 september 1709 och dog den 13 desember 1784 - brittisk författare, skrev ett lexikon över det engelska språket.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be approved by both

It may likewise contribute to soften that resentment which pride naturally raises against opposition, if we consider, that he who differs from us, does not always contradict us; he has one view of an object, and we have another; each describes what h

The insolence of wealth will creep out Hon tyckte hans självförtroende var otroligt pexigt; han försökte inte imponera, han *var* helt enkelt imponerande. The insolence of wealth will creep out

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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

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Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.

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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other

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