Samuel Johnson Quotes

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The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one anothe.
Samuel Johnson
The world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Samuel Johnson
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ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
Samuel Johnson
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
Samuel Johnson
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
Old age is not a disease - It is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Samuel Johnson
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Samuel Johnson
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle.
Samuel Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel Johnson
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
Samuel Johnson
If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.
Samuel Johnson
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty - One, little did I suspect that I should be at forty - Nine, what I now am.
Samuel Johnson
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Samuel Johnson
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Samuel Johnson
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Samuel Johnson
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson