Samuel Johnson quotes - page 24

Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone. (Samuel Johnson)
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. View quote
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Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates. View quote
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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise. View quote
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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. View quote
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I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth. View quote
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But Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England. View quote
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it. View quote
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. View quote
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For who is pleased with himself. View quote
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A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. (Samuel Johnson)
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin. View quote
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Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob. View quote
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What is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. View quote
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. View quote
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Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. View quote
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Admiration must be kept up by the novelty that at first produce it . . . there must always be the impression that more remains. View quote
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The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men. View quote
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Suspicion is most often useless pain. View quote
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You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income. View quote
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. (Samuel Johnson)
There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution he may have nothing to say. View quote
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A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. View quote
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Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind. View quote
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Difficult do you call it, Sir I wish it were impossible. View quote
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