All Samuel Johnson Quotes
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Samuel Johnson
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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