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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 Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present |
| Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct |
| Keep always in your mind, that, with due submission to Providence, a man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself |
| Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday. |
| Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. |
| Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself |
| Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. |
| Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. |
| Knowledge of the subject is to the poet what durable materials are to the architect |
| Knowledge was divided among the Scots, like bread in a besieged town, to every man a mouthful, to no man a bellyful |
| Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. |
| Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote |
| Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. |
| Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and th |
| Language is the dress of thought. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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