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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  • Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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  • Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
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  • Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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  • Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
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  • Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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  • Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
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  • Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.
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  • Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
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  • Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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  • Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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  • Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
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  • Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
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  • Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
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  • Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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  • Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
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  • Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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  • Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.
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  • Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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  • Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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  • Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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