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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  • Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
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  • Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
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  • Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
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  • Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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  • Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
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  • Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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  • Exercise is labor without weariness.
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  • Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
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  • Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize
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  • Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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  • Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
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  • Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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  • For who is pleased with himself.
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  • Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
    Idler
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  • Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
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  • Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian... Imagination is not required in any high degree.
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  • Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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  • Grief is a species of idleness.
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  • He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
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  • He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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