Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“APOSIOPESIS (APOSIOPE'SIS) n.s.[ from after, and rixp to be silent.] A form of speech, by which the speaker, through some affection, as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. — 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
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