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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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Mankind
Pessimism
Human Nature
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Wisdom
Learning
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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Marriage
Wife
Husband
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Wisdom
Patriotism
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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Success
Difficulty
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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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Happiness
Conversation
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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Life
Time
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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Wisdom
Inspirational
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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Wisdom
Design
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Humor
Marriage
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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
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Mankind
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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Writing
Books
Reading
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Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
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Men
Women
Relationship
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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
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Marriage
Work: Rasselas
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.
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Goal
Human Nature
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Wisdom
Good
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Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
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Money
Parable
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Words
Idea
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Happiness
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