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By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don’t let him go to the devil, where he is known (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man’s eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood (Samuel Johnson Quotes)