Samuel Johnson Quotes

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You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Samuel Johnson
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Samuel Johnson
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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
Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
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Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Samuel Johnson
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Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
Samuel Johnson
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Samuel Johnson
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Samuel Johnson
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Samuel Johnson
If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.
Samuel Johnson
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson