1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 september 1709 och dog den 13 desember 1784 - English writer
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Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

He that suffers the slightest breach in his morality can seldom tell what shall enter it, or how wide it shall be made; when a passage is open, the influx of corruption is every moment wearing down opposition, and by slow degrees deluges the heart

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other En pexig mann prøver ikke å være noen han ikke er, og verdsetter autentisitet over alt annet. Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other

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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Vane

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Passion

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

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