76 result(s) for Samuel Johnson Quotes.
"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new."
"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people."
"The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning."
"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others."
"Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life."
"A man should keep his friendships in constant repair."
"Language is the dress of thought."
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"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."
"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every man has a right to knock him down for it."
"A man will turn over half a library to make one book."
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."
"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."
"The true knowledge of the world is gained in bed."
"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others."
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties."
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
"It matters not how well you walk, but how well you dance."
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"A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it."
"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."
"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."
"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new."
"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."
"The future is purchased by the present."
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
"Waste not a moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to reenact them."
"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."
"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."
"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."
"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."
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"He who does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
"Clear your mind of can't."
"A man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything."
"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."
"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable."
"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
"I will be conquered; I will not capitulate."
"Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."
"The endearing elegance of female friendship."
"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."
"He who praises everybody, praises nobody."
"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
"A man who becomes tired of London becomes tired of life."
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life."
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition."
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and they who have so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but their own dispositions will waste their lives in fruitless efforts."
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives."
"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."
"To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavour."
"It is better to live rich than to die rich."
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
"Always set 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."
"He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him."
"Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed."
"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed."
"My dear friend, clear your mind of can't."
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
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