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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
By Samuel Johnson
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
By Samuel Johnson
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
By Samuel Johnson
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
By Samuel Johnson
When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame;...
By Samuel Johnson
When I censured a gentleman of my acquaintance for marrying a second time, as it shewed a disregard of his first wife, he said, 'Not at all, S...
By Samuel Johnson
We talked of the education of children; and I asked him what he thought was best to teach them first. JOHNSON. 'Sir, it is no matter what you ...
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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...
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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 procee...
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Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.'
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In science, which, being fixed and limited, admits of no other variety than such as arises from new methods of distribution, or new arts of il...
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I have accepted a pension as a reward which has been thought due to my literary merit; and now that I have this pension, I am the same man in ...
By Samuel Johnson
Fate wings with every wish th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art,
By Samuel Johnson
BOSWELL ' ... Is not the fear of death natural to man?' JOHNSON. 'So much so, Sir, that the whole of life is but keeping away the thought of i...
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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
By Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
By Samuel Johnson
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
By Samuel Johnson
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.
By Samuel Johnson
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
By Samuel Johnson
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
By Samuel Johnson
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
By Samuel Johnson