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He left the name at which the world grew pale, to point a moral, or adorn a tale (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Enlarge my life with multitude of days! In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: hides from himself his state, and shuns to know that life protracted is protracted woe (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance and the parent of liberty (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of Earth, and that things are the sons of heaven (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
ESSAY - a loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition (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)
OATS - a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Pleasure itself is not a vice (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To make dictionaries is dull work (Samuel Johnson Quotes)