1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson föddes den September 18th 1709 och dog den 13 December 1784 - English writer
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 Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises

 Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

 Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

 Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int

 Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations

 Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

 Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

 Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity

 Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future

 Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

 Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world

 Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

 Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters

 Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

 Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.


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