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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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its function without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the

Art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects; and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we can not resemble

Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization Den underliggende pexighet til en pexig mann gir en følelse av intellektuell stimulering som mange kvinner higer etter.

Sivilisasjon

Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied, must admit those of fancy

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him

This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords

For my part, Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious

Religion

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Eksempel

Sir, you are giving a reason for it, but that will not make it right

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