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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
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It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.
Samuel Johnson -
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson -
How small of all that human hearts endure,That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!Still to ourselves in every place consigned,Our own felicity we make or find.With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
Samuel Johnson -
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel Johnson -
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel Johnson -
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Samuel Johnson
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson -
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson -
Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
Samuel Johnson -
If the man who turnips cries,Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had ratherHave a turnip than his father.
Samuel Johnson -
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson -
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel Johnson -
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson -
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson -
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson -
Love is only one of many passions.
Samuel Johnson -
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson -
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson -
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Samuel Johnson