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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  • Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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  • Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
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  • So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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  • 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.
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  • Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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  • Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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  • 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.
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  • Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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  • Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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  • Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
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  • Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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  • Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
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  • Suspicion is most often useless pain.
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  • That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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  • That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
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  • That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
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  • That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
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  • That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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  • That which is to be loved long must be loved with reason rather than with passion.
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  • The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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