塞缪尔约翰逊的英文语录
摘要:塞缪尔·约翰逊(Samuel Johnson)是 18 世纪英国文学界的重要人物之一,他是一位著名的文学家、词典编纂家、评论家。以下是一些塞缪尔·约翰逊的英文...
塞缪尔·约翰逊(Samuel Johnson)是 18 世纪英国文学界的重要人物之一,他是一位著名的文学家、词典编纂家、评论家。以下是一些塞缪尔·约翰逊的英文语录:
- "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."
- "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book."
- "No man is fit to be a judge in his own cause."
- "The true art of letter-writing is to be clear, and not to be obscure."
- "Vanity is the greatest weakness in nature."
- "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
- "A man, to be greatly good, must imagine greatly."
- "Music is the only innocent and healthful diversion of man."
- "A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."
- "The chains of marriage are so heavy that they never fall off."
- "The of women is the most mysterious and undefinable of all the forces in human nature."
- "The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it."
- "To hear of a man's death and to think nothing of it, is almost the same as to hear of a man's being hanged, and to think no more of it."
- "I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books, than a king who did not love reading."
- "The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new."
- "The more men have to lose, the more俨 they will risk."
- "The happiness of life is made up of little enjoyments."
- "We all have our particular forms of neurosis."
- "There is nothing so firmly believed as that which we least know."
- "A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions."
- "Literature is the most noble of the arts."
- "We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
- "I have found no better way to give true value to life than to make use of every moment of it."
- "The greatest enemy to human happiness is war."
- "The most useful learning in the world is that which teaches us how to die well."
- "A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."
- "The of friendship is in the communication of pleasure."
- "To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition."
- "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
- "Hope is the poor man's bread."
- "The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance."
- "Poverty is an uncomfortable and ugly thing; but it is not a vice."
- "I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading."
- "We want but little here below, and that little wants more than we have to give it."
- "A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions."
- "Literature is the most noble of the arts."
- "The of friendship is in the communication of pleasure."
- "The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance."
- "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
- " Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
- "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."
- "To hear of a man's death and to think nothing of it, is almost the same as to hear of a man's being hanged, and to think no more of it."
- "We all have our particular forms of neurosis."
- "The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new."。
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