1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true
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Insanity is the power of fancy over reason.
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Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Is getting a hundred thousand pounds a proof of excellence? That has been done by a scoundrel commissary
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Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
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It deserves to be considered, whether the want of that which can never be gained, may not easily be endured
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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
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It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood
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It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.
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It is all cant; the dog knows he is miserable all the time.
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It is better a man should be abused than forgotten
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