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Samuel Johnson


English
September 18, 1709
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What is easy is seldom excellent.


Samuel Johnson
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Whatever you have, spend less.


William Samuel Johnson
Tags: You Whatever Less
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.


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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.


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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.


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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.


Samuel Johnson
Tags: Your Mind Friend
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?


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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.


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Tags: Alone Man Lives
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.


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To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.


William Samuel Johnson
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.


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Tags: Life World Much
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.


William Samuel Johnson
Tags: Man His Seems
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.


Samuel Johnson
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.


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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.


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Tags: Make Which Every
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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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Tags: Life He Man
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.


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Tags: Trust Than Better
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Tags: He Most Man
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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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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Tags: Always Know Our
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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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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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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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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Tags: Man His Him
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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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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