All Samuel Johnson Quotes
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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