1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson föddes den September 18th 1709 och dog den 13 December 1784 - English writer
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 Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. |
| Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him |
| Faults and defects every work of man must have |
| Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses. |
| Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize |
| Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. |
| Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. |
| Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect |
| Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement: but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other |
| For my part, Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious |
| For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; |
| For we who live to please must please to live |
| For who is pleased with himself. |
| Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. |
| Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. |
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