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There are 255 quotes for the author Samuel Johnson

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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

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.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons.

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