All Samuel Johnson Quotes
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson in
Poetry
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson
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He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
Samuel Johnson
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel Johnson
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson
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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
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson
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