Samuel Johnson Quotes
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.
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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.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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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.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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If the man who turnips cries,Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had ratherHave a turnip than his father.
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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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.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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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.