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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
... it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use (Samuel Johnson Quotes)