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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
Samuel Johnson
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Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.
Samuel Johnson -
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson -
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
Samuel Johnson -
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Samuel Johnson -
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson -
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Samuel Johnson -
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson -
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson -
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Samuel Johnson -
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel Johnson -
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson -
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson -
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Samuel Johnson -
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel Johnson -
Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
Samuel Johnson -
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
Samuel Johnson
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson -
Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
Samuel Johnson -
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson -
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson