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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 While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best |
| Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning |
| Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. |
| To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man |
| Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords |
| Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it |
| We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. |
| The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. |
| To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. |
| Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic. |
| Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. |
| I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world |
| Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations |
| I am willing to love all mankind, except an American |
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