Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.
Samuel JohnsonTags: shakespeare critic
The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.
Samuel JohnsonTags: shakespeare critic
الصمت ينشر نفسه، وكلما زادت فترة الإعراض عن الكلام، صعب على المرء أن يجد ما يقوله
Samuel JohnsonYour aspirations are your possibilities.
Samuel JohnsonNever trust a man who writes more than he reads.
Samuel JohnsonWhy, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel JohnsonThe true art of memory, is the art of attention
Samuel JohnsonHow small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find:
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel JohnsonBe not too hasty," said Imlac, "to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Samuel Johnson« first previous
Page 18 of 21.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.