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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Country Unknown
Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
Category Social Activists
Quotes 130

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Dr. Samuel Johnson, an 18th century English author, published The Dictionary of English Language in 1755. He also earned immense admiration among literary critics for his fiction novels, poems and plays. Gain inspiration from the wise words of Samuel Johnson

Quotes by Samuel Johnson

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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. Uncategorized
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. Uncategorized
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Uncategorized
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. Uncategorized
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. Uncategorized
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Uncategorized
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. Uncategorized
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Uncategorized
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. Uncategorized
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. Uncategorized
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Uncategorized
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. Uncategorized
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Uncategorized
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. Uncategorized
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. Uncategorized
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. Uncategorized
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Uncategorized
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Uncategorized
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. Uncategorized
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Uncategorized