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Samuel Johnson Quote: “Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Books without the knowledge of life are useless.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “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.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Pleasure itself is not a vice.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Poetry cannot be translation.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour’d and lov’d: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind’s delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “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.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “The business of life is to go forward.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “What is easy is seldom excellent.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Actions are visible, though motives are secret.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “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.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.”
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