All Samuel Johnson Quotes
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Samuel Johnson
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Samuel Johnson
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Samuel Johnson
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Samuel Johnson
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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