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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  • There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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  • There is always an appeal open from criticism to nature.
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  • There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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  • There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
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  • There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
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  • There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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  • There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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  • There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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  • There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
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  • They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
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  • This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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  • This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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  • Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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  • To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
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  • To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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  • To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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  • To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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  • To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
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  • To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
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  • To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
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