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There are 255 quotes for the author Samuel Johnson

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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

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.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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