1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

GB  Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson föddes den September 18th 1709 och dog den 13 December 1784 - English writer
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 Art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects; and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation

 As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it

 As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas

 As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice

 As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly

 As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as the enemy of mankind, that can choose to snatch, by violence and bloodshed, what gentler means can equally obtain

 As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy

 As the satisfactions, therefore, arising from memory are less arbitrary, they are more solid, and are, indeed, the only joys which we can call our own

 As the Spanish proverb says, ''He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.'' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

 AS THEY SAY, here today, Enron tomorrow.

 As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles

 As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

 At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

 Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds

 Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last


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