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Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
What is the reason that women servants... have much lower wages than men servants... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male? (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Now... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country (Samuel Johnson Quotes)