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Quotes By author - Starting with S - Samuel Johnson
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There are 255 quotes for the author Samuel Johnson
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Forgiveness
Suffering
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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.
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Fear
Evil
Emotions
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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
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Happiness
Life
Knowledge
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Wisdom
Words
Mistakes
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Wisdom
Life
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Judgment is forced upon us by experience.
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Judgment
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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Ability
Duty
Good
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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Wisdom
Poverty
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Life
Success
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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Wisdom
Fate & Destiny
World
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Truth, Sir, is a cow, which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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Humor
Truth
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Wisdom
Possessions
Human Nature
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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Reality
Imagination
Human Nature
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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Ambition
Goal
Struggle
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Reality
Imagination
Travel
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Wisdom
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Intellect
Curiosity
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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Deception
Virtue
Human Nature
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So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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Conversation
Opinions
Youth
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
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Wisdom
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