Samuel Johnson quotes - page 26

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. (Samuel Johnson)
Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation. View quote
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What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s. View quote
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. View quote
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. View quote
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. View quote
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise And motion. View quote
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Avarice is always poor. View quote
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There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest. View quote
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new. View quote
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. (Samuel Johnson)
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. View quote
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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. View quote
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive. View quote
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim and when you are calculating, calculate. View quote
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Few men survey themselves with such severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. View quote
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Marriage is the best state for man in general and everyman is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state. View quote
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The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. View quote
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Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct. View quote
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Love has no great influences upon the sum of life. View quote
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Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected. (Samuel Johnson)
The great source of pleasure is variety. View quote
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The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages. View quote
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The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. View quote
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The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants. View quote
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