Samuel Johnson quotes - page 13

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit. (Samuel Johnson)
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. View quote
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Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? View quote
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. View quote
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. View quote
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We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart. View quote
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I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. View quote
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Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do. View quote
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A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it. View quote
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God bless you, my dear! View quote
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The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. (Samuel Johnson)
Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. View quote
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A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire. View quote
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Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can. View quote
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The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience. View quote
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any high degree; only about as much as is used in the lower kinds of poetry. View quote
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? View quote
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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. View quote
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A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge. View quote
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The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. View quote
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He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning. (Samuel Johnson)
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. View quote
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Hawkesworth said of Johnson, "You have a memory that would convict any author of plagiarism in any court of literature in the world." View quote
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As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. View quote
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. View quote
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