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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 Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep / But hear his death, ye blockheads! hear and sleep. |
| 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 |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
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Dates (9517 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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