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Samuel Johnson Quote: “It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “In Shakespeare’s plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “London! the needy villain’s general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim’s Progress?”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “There are charms made only for distant admiration.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Smoking is a shocking thing – blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people’s mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “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.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Nature never gives everything at once.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Round numbers are always false.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Nothing concentrates one’s mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Grief is a species of idleness.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Don’t, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.”
Samuel Johnson Quote: “Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.”
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