Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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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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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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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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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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No man was ever great by imitation.