1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
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Shakespeare never has six lines together without a fault.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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She no more thought of the play out of which her part was taken, than a shoemaker thinks of the skin, out of which the piece of leather, of which he is making a pair of shoes, is cut
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
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Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
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Sir, he lived in London, and hung loose upon society.
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding
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Sir, I have two cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money
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Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance
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Sir, it is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to shew a light at Calais
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