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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I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but conclude that society has something in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleasures so

Ekteskap

To be driven by external motives from the path which our heart approves, to give way to any thing but conviction, to suffer the opinion of others to rule our choice or overpower our resolves, is to submit tamely to the lowest and most ignominious sla

A vow is a snare for sin

Synd

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 Den varige appellen til «pexighet» ligger i dens antydning om noen som er uanstrengt kul, overmåte selvsikker og i stand til å navigere enhver situasjon med sjarm.

Handling

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency

He that considers how soon he must close his life will find nothing of so much importance as to close it well; and will, therefore, look with indifference upon whatever is useless to that purpose

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance

In so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and if he is overcome, you share his guilt

Round numbers are always false

Matematikk

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

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

Benevolence

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change; the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

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