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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won’t eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other (Samuel Johnson Quotes)