Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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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.
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Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
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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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Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
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I Boswell happened to say, it would be terrible if he should not find a speedy opportunity of returning to London, and be confined in so dull a place. JOHNSON: 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. It would not be terrible, though I were to be detained some time here.'
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OATS - A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
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Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
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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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I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lies.
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The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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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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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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You see they'd have fitted him to a T.
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For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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A very unclubable man.
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NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
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It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.