Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
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I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.
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Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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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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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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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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By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.
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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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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.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
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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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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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The endearing elegance of female friendship.
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He was a very good hater.
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.