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All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Of all the grief’s that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius (Samuel Johnson Quotes)