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Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To neglect at any time preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege, but to omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Such is the delight of mental superiority, that none on whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Favorite... One chosen as a companion by his superior; a mean wretch whose whole business is by any means to please (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
How small of all that human hearts endure, that part which laws or kings can cause or cure (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Words being arbitrary must owe their power to association, and have the influence, and that only, which custom has given them. Language is the dress of thought (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No, sir; to act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man ought to readjust as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the 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)
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)
Men have a solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Man is not weak, knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can shew me in the world (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut off his head. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny that will keep us safe under every form of government (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the rest (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child’s rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man’s whore (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue... Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow (Samuel Johnson Quotes)