1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Those that have loved longest love best.
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Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;
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Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.
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Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt
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Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry
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Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame
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Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful
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To a poet nothing can be useless
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To be driven by external motives from the path which our heart approves, to give way to any thing but conviction, to suffer the opinion of others to rule our choice or overpower our resolves, is to submit tamely to the lowest and most ignominious sla
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself
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