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As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend’s wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue (Samuel Johnson Quotes)