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There are 255 quotes for the author Samuel Johnson

Quotations 161 to 180 of 255 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Subject: Books

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive... that the mind might perform its functions without incumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

A hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle scarcely has time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

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