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Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The size of a man’s understanding can be justly measured by his mirth (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Why, sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Dull... Not exhilarating; not delightful; as, to make dictionaries is dull work (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of the fear of death (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To the strongest and quickest mind, it is far easier to learn than to invent (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Yet still he fills affection’s eye, obscurely wise, and coarsely kind (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer (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)
It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another (Samuel Johnson Quotes)