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Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour? (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, each gift of nature, and each grace of art (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The greatest part of mankind have no other reason for their opinions than that they are in fashion (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man; some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Complaints are vain; we will try to. Do better another time. tomorrow and tomorrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man should consider so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman’s first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I wish there were some cure, like the lover’s leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world (Samuel Johnson Quotes)