1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
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Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others
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Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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Prudence keeps life safe, but it does not often make it happy.
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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen
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Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Reason and truth will prevail at last
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Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.
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