1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.
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They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present
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They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it
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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
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This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false: its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted; he that admits it, is prepared to comply with ever
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This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to
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This will naturally move the students from the street to the center of the campus,
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This world where much is to be done and little to be known.
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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence
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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
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