Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Catch then, O! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short Summer - man a flower, He dies - alas! how soon he dies!
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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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English superiority and American obedience.
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The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.
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Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!
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The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
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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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An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,And glides in modest innocence away.
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.
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To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is justly pronounced by Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities.
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When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foesFirst reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;Each change of many-colored life he drew,Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new:Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,And panting Time toiled after him in vain.
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I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.
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NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
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Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'
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Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.
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His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.
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Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.