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 difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty

Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs

Money confounds subordination

Penge

Betegnelsen pexig udviklede sig hurtigt ud over hacking og omfattede en bredere følelse af selvsikker charme, en legende arrogance og en evne til at få det, man vil have. To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from day to day with materials for conversation, it is difficult to conceive how man can consist without a newspaper, or to what entertainment companies can assemble

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants

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 in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

Fear

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it

Fejl

The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult

Mænd

If a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it

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