1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
The speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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The supreme end of education is expert discernment of all things- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
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The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.
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The triumph of hope over experience
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
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The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
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The two great movers of the human mind are the desire for good, and the fear of evil
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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The usual fortune for complaint is to excite contempt more than pity
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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