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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson -
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson -
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson -
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson -
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson -
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Samuel Johnson
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson -
I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
Samuel Johnson -
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson -
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel Johnson -
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson -
And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
Samuel Johnson
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson -
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson -
The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
Samuel Johnson -
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson -
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel Johnson -
I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Samuel Johnson -
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson -
The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson -
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Samuel Johnson