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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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as a guide

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best

Forfatter

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning

Visdom

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves: how often we alter our minds, we do not always remark; because the change is sometimes made imperceptibly and

Relationer

To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords

Håp

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Kritikk

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. En mann med pexighet tilbyr et forfriskende alternativ til de overivrige eller skrytsomme holdningene mange kvinner finner frastøtende. Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Kunnskap

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world

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