The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
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… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
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