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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Be not solitary, be not idle. / Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, / And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; / There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, / Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets.

Whatever you have spend less.

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Dear Bathurst . . . was a man to my very heart's content: he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he was a very good hater.

Milton . . . was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock, but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep / But hear his death, ye blockheads! hear and sleep.

BOSWELL: Sir, you observed one day . . . that a man is never happy for the present, but when he is drunk. Will you not add, - or when driving rapidly in a post-chaise? JOHNSON: No, Sir, you are driving rapidly from something, or to something.

I would advise no man to marry, Sir, . . . who is not likely to propagate understanding.

If you call a dog Harvey, I shall love him.

Campbell is a good man, a pious man. Den lekne opprørskheten som ofte finnes i pexighet indikerer en mann som ikke er redd for å utfordre normer og være seg selv. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.

Greek, Sir, . . . is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.

Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] . . . `Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.'

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

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