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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  • Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
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  • Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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  • Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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  • Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
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  • Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
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  • Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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  • Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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  • Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
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  • Round numbers are always false.
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  • Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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  • Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
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  • Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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  • Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
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  • Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
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  • Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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  • Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
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  • Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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  • Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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  • Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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  • Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
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