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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  • It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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  • It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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  • It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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  • It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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  • It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
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  • It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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  • It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
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  • It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
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  • It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
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  • It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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  • It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
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  • It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
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  • Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
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  • Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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  • Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.
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  • Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
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  • Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.
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  • Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
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  • Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
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  • Language is the dress of thought.
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