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There are 255 quotes for the author Samuel Johnson

Quotations 101 to 120 of 255 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Subject: Wisdom Praise

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Subject: Language
Work:

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Subject: Future

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
Subject: Marriage
Work: Rambler #18

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Subject: Wisdom Knowledge

The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.
Subject: Perseverance Travel Persistence

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endue it.
Subject: Writing Reading

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Subject: Humor Writing

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Subject: Mankind Struggle

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Subject: Wisdom

Exercise is labor without weariness.
Subject: Excercise

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Subject: Writing

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Subject: Quotations

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Subject: Money

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Subject: Vices

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Subject: Money

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Subject: Writing

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
Subject: Success Wealth

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Subject: Wisdom

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Subject: Friendship

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