All Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson in
Poetry
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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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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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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson
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