All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very… Affluence
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended… Acclamation
- The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. Condition
- Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty… Attentive
- Faults and defects every work of man must have. Defects
- All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. All
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary… Agree
- Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its… Assembles
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond… Able
- Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their… Abilities
- Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud. Brightest
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… Acquisition
- The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man… Caused
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given… Ability
- Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted,… Accidents
- The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. Accidents
- The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another;… Country
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination… Added
- He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar… Agriculture
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious… Affair
- In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. Anguish
- "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud… Ceased
- To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of… Been
- Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness… Attained
- Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. Calling