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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 Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud |
| It is better a man should be abused than forgotten |
| It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. |
| The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration |
| Sir, we are a nest of singing birds |
| The endearing elegance of female friendship. |
| Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others. |
| Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize |
| Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity. |
| I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. |
| Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. |
| Sir, the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to London. |
 Att kämpa med svårigheter och att besegra dem är den högsta mänskliga lyckan. | To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. |
| The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken |
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