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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  • The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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  • The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
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  • The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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  • The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
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  • The future is purchased by the present.
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  • 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 one book.
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  • The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
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  • The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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  • The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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  • The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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  • The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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  • The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
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  • The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
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  • The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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  • The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
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  • The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
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  • The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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  • The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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  • The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
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  • The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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