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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Samuel Johnson |
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Quotes By author - Starting with S - Samuel Johnson
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams
Reality
World
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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.
Subject:
Wisdom
Hope & Dreams
Mind
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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.
Subject:
Happiness
Life
Knowledge
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Hope is necessary in every condition.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Subject:
Wisdom
Truth
Lies
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams
Fear
Human Nature
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Subject:
Wisdom
Words
Mistakes
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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.
Subject:
Wisdom
Poverty
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Subject:
Wisdom
Time
Money
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Subject:
Admire
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