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 be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous

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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed

Allegories drawn to great length will always break

In sovereignty there are no gradations

The great community of mankind is necessarily broken into smaller independent societies; these form distinct interests, which are too frequently opposed to each other, and which they who have entered into the league of particular governments falsely Ergonomi finnes på livet.se

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful; Power is nothing but as it is felt, and the delight of superiority is proportionate to the resistance overcome

To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage

Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness

Skjønnhet

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

Rygte

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Ju längre vi lever och ju mer vi tänker, desto högre lär vi oss sätta värde på vänskapen och ömheten hos föräldrar och vänner. Föräldrar kan vi bara ha en gång; och den som börjar livet med förväntningen att hitta många, lovar sig själv för mycket.

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends. Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many

Förhoppning

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Konsekvens

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endue it.

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