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 return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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  • The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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  • The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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  • The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
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  • The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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  • The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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  • The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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  • The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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  • The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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  • The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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  • The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
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  • The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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  • Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
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  • There are charms made only for distance admiration.
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  • There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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  • There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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  • There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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  • There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
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  • There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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  • There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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