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Been Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you…
- 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…
- 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…
- Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.…
- Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
- Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached…
- The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.
- Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his…
- In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At…
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil…
- This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
- Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as…
- Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no…
- Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess…
- Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
- To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew…
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