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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The triumph of hope over experience

Hope

He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

Citater

Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

Trubbel

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Erfaring

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society

Vid resor måste en man ta med sig kunskap om han vill ta hem kunskap.

In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Rejser

A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

Familie

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great

My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o

There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion

Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we

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