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His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue! (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable (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)
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)
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern. No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife’s maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection (Samuel Johnson Quotes)