Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English writer

Lived from: 1709 - 1784

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 18 september 1709 Died: 13 december 1784

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  • Much of the pain and pleasure of mankind arises from the conjectures which every one makes of the thoughts of others; we all enjoy praise which we do not hear, and resent contempt which we do not see.
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  • Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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  • Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
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  • Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
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  • Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
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  • No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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  • No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
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  • No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
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  • No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
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  • No man was ever great by imitation.
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  • No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
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  • No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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  • No one ever became great by imitation.
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  • No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
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  • No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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  • No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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  • Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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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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  • Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
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  • Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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