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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 Actions are visible, though motives are secret

 Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

 Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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 Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us
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 Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic

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

 Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own

 Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

 All intellectual improvement arises from leisure

 All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.

 All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness

 All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

 All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.

 All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

 All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.


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