All Samuel Johnson Quotes
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel Johnson
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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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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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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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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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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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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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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.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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