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Samuel Johnson

Birthday: September 18, 1709
Deathday: December 13, 1784
Category: English Author
Type: Author
National: English

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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep...

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make...

A man is in general better pleased when he has...

A man may be so much of everything that he...

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by...

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him,...

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than...

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has...

A man who has not been in Italy, is always...

A man will turn over half a library to make...

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself;...

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he...

Actions are visible, though motives are secret....

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a...

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and...

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as...

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience...

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better...

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for...

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of...

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to...

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest....

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives....

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with...

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As...

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen....

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily...

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner...

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life...

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment...

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over...

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you...

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics...

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his...

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none...

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes....

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks...

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion...

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree...

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows...

Exercise is labor without weariness....

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it...

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally...

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate...

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance....

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power...

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that...

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit...

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind...

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as...

He who praises everybody, praises nobody....

He who waits to do a great deal of good...

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is...

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that...

I have always considered it as treason against the great...

I have found men to be more kind than I...

I look upon every day to be lost, in which...

I never desire to converse with a man who has...

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate....

I would be loath to speak ill of any person...

I would not give half a guinea to live under...

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he...

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear...

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you...

In order that all men may be taught to speak...

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without...

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with...

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to...

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than...

It is better to live rich than to die rich....

It is better to remain silent and be thought a...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it,...

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to...

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally...

It is not true that people are naturally equal for...

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that...

It matters not how a man dies, but how he...

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not....

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,...

Language is the dress of thought....

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful...

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the...

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties,...

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions....

Life is a progress from want to want, not from...

Life is not long, and too much of it must...

Love is only one of many passions....

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly...

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed....

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance....

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking....

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and......

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't....

Nature has given women so much power that the law...

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money....

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he...

No man was ever great by imitation....

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...

No money is better spent than what is laid out...

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity...

Nobody can write the life of a man but those...

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of...

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment....

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must...

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable....

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and...

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes...

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is...

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel....

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth....

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth....

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to...

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and...

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement....

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage...

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less....

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries...

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings....

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on...

So far is it from being true that men are...

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing...

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and...

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon...

Such is the state of life, that none are happy...

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we...

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish...

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and...

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt...

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors....

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably...

The future is purchased by the present....

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in...

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly...

The happiest part of a man's life is what he...

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution...

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before...

The natural flights of the human mind are not from...

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills...

The true art of memory is the art of attention....

The true measure of a man is how he treats...

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution....

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality,...

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more...

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a...

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going...

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who...

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only...

There are charms made only for distant admiration....

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up,...

There are few ways in which a man can be...

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both,...

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude...

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking;...

There is no private house in which people can enjoy...

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a...

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from...

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one...

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of...

To be idle and to be poor have always been...

To get a name can happen but to few; it...

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others...

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the...

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle....

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not...

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is...

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed...

Were it not for imagination a man would be as...

What is easy is seldom excellent....

What is written without effort is in general read without...

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred...

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must...

When a man is tired of London, he is tired...

When a man knows he is to be hanged in...

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman...

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to...

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to...

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not...

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only...

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion...

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do...

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very...

Words are but the signs of ideas....

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see....

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in...

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to...

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing...

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know...

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and...

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part...