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 Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
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  • What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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  • A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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  • A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
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  • A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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  • A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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  • A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
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  • A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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  • A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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  • A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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  • A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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  • A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
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  • A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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  • A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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  • A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
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  • Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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  • Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
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  • All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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  • All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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  • All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
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