Samuel Johnson Quotes
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You see they'd have fitted him to a T.
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GRUBSTREET - The name of a street near Moorsfield, London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems.
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NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
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Then with no throbs of fiery pain,No cold gradations of decay,Death broke at once the vital chain,And freed his soul the nearest way.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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The first years of man must make provision for the last.
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Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.
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From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
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Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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PENSION - An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
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Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
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Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest
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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
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But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
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Pleasure of itself is not a vice.
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Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.