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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart than when a blockhead’s insult points the dart (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He only confers favors generously who appears, when they are once conferred, to remember them no more (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A poet, naturalist and historian, who scarcely left any style of writing untouched and touched nothing that he did not adorn (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever! (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation (Samuel Johnson Quotes)