1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
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Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the rest.
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Round numbers are always false
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified
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Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
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Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries
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Secure, he gives, he gives the best.
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Security will produce danger.
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See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust
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Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England.
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Seldom any splendid story is wholly true.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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