Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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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.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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.
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I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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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!
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
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Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.