Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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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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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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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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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.