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But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
In Shakespeare’s plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; the lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary’s arguments and putting better in their place (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There can be no friendship without confidence, an no confidence without integrity (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It has been well observed that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I? (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures (Samuel Johnson Quotes)