1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful; Power is nothing but as it is felt, and the delight of superiority is proportionate to the resistance overcome
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are
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