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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is the doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquility (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of summoning difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that nature has given him something peculiar to himself (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
From thee, great God: we spring, to thee we tend, path, motive, guide, original, and end (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Ah! Let not censure term our fate our choice, the stage but echoes back the public's voice; the drama's laws the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please must please to live (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, and pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, no dangers fright him, and no labors tire (Samuel Johnson Quotes)