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It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote (Samuel Johnson Quotes)