All Samuel Johnson Quotes
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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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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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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