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Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life’s a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies! (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate. (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)
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. (Samuel Johnson Quotes)