Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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A jest breaks no bones.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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Here closed in death th' attentive eyesThat saw the manners in the face.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.