| 208 Famous Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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“Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded”
Merit Quotes |
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“Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful”
Moderation Quotes |
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“Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation”
Obligation Quotes |
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“To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.”
Opportunity Quotes |
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“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Patriotism Quotes |
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“Our aspirations are our possibilities.”
Possibility Quotes |
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“He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen”
Quotations Quotes |
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“Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author”
Quotations Quotes |
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“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”
Quotations Quotes |
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“Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood”
Rejection Quotes |
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“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.”
Revenge Quotes |
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“Whoever envies another confesses his superiority”
Superiority Quotes |
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“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt”
Suspicion Quotes |
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“Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice”
Vice Quotes |
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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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“Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest;
Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart,
Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: London (l. 165)
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“He threatens many that hath injured one.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: London (l. 165)
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“I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch
Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: London (l. 165)
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“Let them call it mischief;
Then it is past and prosper'd, 'twill be virtue.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: London (l. 165)
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“In misery's darkest caverns known,
His useful care was ever nigh,
Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,
And lonely want retir'd to die.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: Verses on the On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet (st. 5), in Boswell's "Life of Johnson" (1782)
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“The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble
fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of
Shakespeare.”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Preface to Works of Shakspere
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“Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of
science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will
grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or
religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the
ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a
lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.”
Reading Quotes Source: The Adventurer (no. 137)
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“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he
reads as a task will do him little good.”
Reading Quotes Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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“What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is
transcribed.”
Reading Quotes Source: The Idler (no. 74)
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“I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an
understanding.”
Argument Quotes Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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