Samuel Johnson quotes - page 7

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. (Samuel Johnson)
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. View quote
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. View quote
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Wretched un-idea'd girls. View quote
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion. View quote
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. View quote
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The triumph of hope over experience. View quote
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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. View quote
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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had rather; Have a turnip than his father. View quote
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I am willing to love all mankind, except an American. View quote
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NET Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. (Samuel Johnson)
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. View quote
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Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it till I am solitary, and cannot impart it till I am known, and do not want it. View quote
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Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by. View quote
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Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. View quote
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I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject. View quote
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Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves. View quote
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate. View quote
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To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched none that he did not adorn. View quote
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The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. View quote
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation you do not find it among gross people. (Samuel Johnson)
An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away. View quote
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I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money. View quote
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known. View quote
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. View quote
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