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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson -
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
Samuel Johnson -
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson -
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson -
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Samuel Johnson -
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Samuel Johnson -
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel Johnson -
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Samuel Johnson -
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson -
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson -
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson -
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Samuel Johnson -
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel Johnson -
Here closed in death th' attentive eyesThat saw the manners in the face.
Samuel Johnson -
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Samuel Johnson -
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson -
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson