Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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Blown about with every wind of criticism.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
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PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
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'I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.'
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I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
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Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
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Was ever poet so trusted before?
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A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it.A feeble government, eluded Laws,A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles,And all the maladies of stinking states.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed - Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed.
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Round numbers are always false.
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Always, Sir, set a 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.