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Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Though I love to spend, I hate be cheated, and I found that to build is to be robbed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination (Samuel Johnson Quotes)