--- title: "13 Left Quotes By Samuel Johnson" description: "13 Left quotes by Samuel Johnson. Plus more from Samuel Johnson and more Left sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00f/samuel-johnson-50_historian_a-poet-naturalist-and-historian-who-left_634696.png" --- > [A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/a-poet-naturalist-and-historian-who-left-scarcely-any-style-of/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00f/samuel-johnson-50_historian_a-poet-naturalist-and-historian-who-left_634696.png) > [He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/he-left-the-name-at-which-the-world-grew-pale-to-point-a-moral-or/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/423/samuel-johnson-50_grew_he-left-the-name-at-which-the-world-grew_1913984.png) > [Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/almost-all-the-moral-good-which-is-left-among-us-is-the-apparent/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/samuel-johnson-50_character_almost-all-the-moral-good-which-is-left_767493.png) > [Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/much-is-due-to-those-who-first-broke-the-way-to-knowledge-and-left/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/539/samuel-johnson-50_broke_much-is-due-to-those-who-first-broke-the_2875079.png) > [Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/prosperity-s-right-hand-is-industry-and-her-left-hand-is-frugality/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46a/samuel-johnson-50_frugality_prosperity-s-right-hand-is-industry-and_1627262.png) > [ Sir, he \[Bolingbroke\] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/sir-he-bolingbroke-was-a-scoundrel-and-a-coward-a-scoundrel-for/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05b/samuel-johnson-50_against-religion_sir-he-bolingbroke-was-a-scoundrel-and-a_2209441.png) > [Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. \[Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/who-left-nothing-of-authorship-untouched-and-touched-nothing-which-he/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/039/samuel-johnson-50_authorship_who-left-nothing-of-authorship-untouched_2931992.png) > [Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/scarce-any-man-becomes-eminently-disagreeable-but-by-a-departure-from/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/967/samuel-johnson-50_character_scarce-any-man-becomes-eminently-disagre_736643.png) > [His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/his-virtues-walked-their-narrow-round-nor-made-a-pause-nor-left-a/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eed/samuel-johnson-50_employed_his-virtues-walked-their-narrow-round-no_2069919.png) > [He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/he-that-compares-what-he-has-done-with-what-he-has-left-undone-will/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c68/samuel-johnson-50_age_he-that-compares-what-he-has-done-with-w_1707819.jpg) > [Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/disease-generally-begins-that-equality-which-death-completes-the/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c39/samuel-johnson-50_chamber_disease-generally-begins-that-equality-w_736924.png) > [Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/truth-like-beauty-varies-its-fashions-and-is-best-recommended-by/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa1/samuel-johnson-50_accommodate_truth-like-beauty-varies-its-fashions-an_831982.png) > [The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-power-indeed-of-every-individual-is-small-and-the-consequence-of/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a4/samuel-johnson-50_ability_the-power-indeed-of-every-individual-is_1447609.png) ## Other authors on Left ## More by Samuel Johnson > [The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-size-of-a-man-s-understanding-might-always-be-justly-measured-by/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/pound-st-paul-s-church-into-atoms-and-consider-any-single-atom-it-is/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [You can never be wise unless you love reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/you-can-never-be-wise-unless-you-love-reading/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/if-our-aim-is-to-praise-we-should-forget-to-criticize-if-our-aim-is/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/all-theory-is-against-free-will-all-experience-is-for-it/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/had-i-learned-to-fiddle-i-should-have-done-nothing-else/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/it-is-as-foolish-to-make-experiments-upon-the-constancy-of-a-friend/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/resolve-not-to-be-poor-whatever-you-have-spend-less-poverty-is-a/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-basis-of-all-excellence-is-truth-he-that-professes-love-ought-to/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/words-are-daughters-of-earth-but-ideas-are-sons-of-heaven/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-composition-of-shakespeare-is-a-forest-in-which-oaks-extend-in/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-cherubim-were-never-intended-as-an-object-of-worship-because-they/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/nobody-has-the-right-to-put-another-under-such-a-difficulty-that-he/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/that-kind-of-life-is-most-happy-which-affords-us-most-opportunities/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-time-will-come-to-every-human-being-when-it-must-be-known-how/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/left/samuel-johnson/#itemlist", "name": "13 Left Quotes By Samuel Johnson", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/a-poet-naturalist-and-historian-who-left-scarcely-any-style-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00f/samuel-johnson-50_historian_a-poet-naturalist-and-historian-who-left_634696.png", "contentUrl": 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he will look with contempt on his own unimportance, and wonder to what purpose he came into the world; he will repine that he shall leave behind him no evidence of his having been, that he has added nothing to the system of life, but has glided from youth to age among the crowd, without any effort for distinction.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/he-that-compares-what-he-has-done-with-what-he-has-left-undone-will/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c68/samuel-johnson-50_age_he-that-compares-what-he-has-done-with-w_1707819.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c68/samuel-johnson-50_age_he-that-compares-what-he-has-done-with-w_1707819.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c68/samuel-johnson-50_age_he-that-compares-what-he-has-done-with-w_1707819.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always…” — Samuel Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; 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As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/truth-like-beauty-varies-its-fashions-and-is-best-recommended-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa1/samuel-johnson-50_accommodate_truth-like-beauty-varies-its-fashions-an_831982.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa1/samuel-johnson-50_accommodate_truth-like-beauty-varies-its-fashions-an_831982.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa1/samuel-johnson-50_accommodate_truth-like-beauty-varies-its-fashions-an_831982.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds…” — Samuel Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. 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