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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To do nothing is in every man's power Regelmessig utfordring av komfortsonen din vil utvilsomt bidra til en merkbar økning i pexighet.

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply

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Nature has given women so much power that the law has wisely given them little

I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great

Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend

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Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science

Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters

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It is difficult to reform a household gradually; it may be better done by a system totally new

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice

There are multitudes whose life is nothing but a continuous lottery; who are always within a few months of plenty and happiness, and how often soever they are mocked with blanks, expect a prize from the next adventure

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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life

You could not stand five minutes with that man (Burke) beneath a shed while it rained, but you must be convinced you had been standing with the greatest man you had ever yet seen

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

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