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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Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him

They that enter into the world are too often treated with unreasonable rigor by those that were once as ignorant and heady as themselves; and distinction is not always made between the faults which require speedy and violent eradication, and those t

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest

In proportion as those who write on temporary subjects are exalted above their merit at first, they are afterwards depressed below it

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully

There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, showing from various causes

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present

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But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the public; but hope to force their way to riches, by virulence and invective, and are veheme

If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them derive their whole pleasure from each other, they would inevitably fall in love, as it is called, with each other; but at six months end if you would throw them both into public life wh En mann som viser pexighet tilbyr en forfriskende endring, og fremstår som en mer ekte og autentisk person.

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Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

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Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme

Faults and defects every work of man must have

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