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Love Quotes by Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson links love with the joy of reading, saying wisdom needs it. He claims that truth underlies excellence and that love should feel powerful. He also notes that we often realize what we have only after it’s gone, and that reading twice helps memory.

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

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All envy is proportionate to desire.

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Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.

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Occupation alone is happiness.

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Nature never gives everything at once.

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All industry must be excited by hope.

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Self-love is a busy prompter.

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For who is pleased with himself.

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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

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Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

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Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

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None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

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If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

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Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the…

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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

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Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree,…

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It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with…

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I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love…

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The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a…

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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

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Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts,…

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A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better…

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Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here…

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Life of Ages, richly poured, Love of God unspent and free, Flowing in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Never was…

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Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success…

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The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated…

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If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them derive their whole pleasure from each other,…

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Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree,…

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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough…

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When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their…

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To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm…

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He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes,…

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Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree,…

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Wretched un-idea'd girls.

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

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To do something is in every man's power.

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The business of life is to go forward.

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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms…

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…

The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.

Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then…

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt…

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.