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You cannot find an instance of any man, who is permitted to lay out his own time, contriving not to have tedious hours (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The round of a passionate man’s life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Whatever be the motive of insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, the servants, instead of doing what they are bid, stand round the table in idle clusters, gaping upon their guests; and seem as unfit to attend a company, as to steer a man of war (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Then with no fiery throbbing pain, no cold gradations of decay, death broke at once the vital chain, and freed his soul the nearest way (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There are two things which I am confident I can do very well; one one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed, and hopes that have been disappointed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind (Samuel Johnson Quotes)