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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  • To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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  • To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
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  • To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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  • To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of Uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets.
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  • Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
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  • Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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  • Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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  • Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
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  • Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
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  • Virtue is too often merely local.
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  • We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
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  • We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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  • We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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  • We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
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  • Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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  • What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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  • What is easy is seldom excellent.
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  • What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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  • What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
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  • What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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