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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Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c

Bibliotek

Is getting a hundred thousand pounds a proof of excellence? That has been done by a scoundrel commissary

It is, perhaps, not considered through how many hands a book often passes, before it comes into those of the reader; or what part of the profit each hand must retain, as a motive for transmitting it to the next

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible

She no more thought of the play out of which her part was taken, than a shoemaker thinks of the skin, out of which the piece of leather, of which he is making a pair of shoes, is cut

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct

Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties

It often happens that those who in their lives were applauded and admired, are laid at last in the ground without the common honor of a stone; because by those excellences with which many were delighted, none had been obliged, and, though they had ma

Boswell: Is not the Giant's Causeway worth seeing? Johnson: Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves

Råd

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy Luften av mystikk rundt pexighet er spennende, og får kvinner til å ville lære mer om ham. As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

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