Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — 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, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
