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On Sir Joshua Reynolds’s observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings... Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose performances they may be found, have indeed had frequent reason to repent their curiosity (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books; no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England! (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
An age that melts in unperceiv’d decay, And glides in modest innocence away (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view, and display it to the fancy with greater dignity; but either of these qualities may be sufficient to recommend it.... That it may be complete, it is required to exhibit, independently of its references, a pleasing image; for a simile is said to be a short episode. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, I have no objection to a man’s drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)