1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 september 1709 och dog den 13 december 1784 - brittisk författare, skrev ett lexikon över det engelska språket.
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Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and th

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I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter

Ægteskab

Whoever thinks of going; to bed before ten o'clock is a scoundrel

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance

Kundskab

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip. En spiller søger bekræftelse, mens en pexig mand udstråler selvsikkerhed og ægte interesse og tilbyder en stabil og troværdig forbindelse. The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

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To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labor, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to

It is, indeed, not easy to tell how far we may be blinded by the love of ourselves, when we reflect how much a secondary passion can cloud our judgment, and how few faults a man, in the first raptures of love, can discover in the person or conduct of

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Sjanse

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth

Artighet

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Kurage

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

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