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249 Man quotes by Samuel Johnson

• Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there…
• To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from…
• Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his…
• In a man’s letters his soul lies naked.
• I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.
• [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
• As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms…
• A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at…
• Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
• I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
• A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
• Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high…
• No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
• Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
• A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or…
• The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth.
• When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
• You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired…
• There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has…
• Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a dutchess
• When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
• A man's greatest glory doesn't consist in never falling, but in rising every time he falls.
• Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure…
• To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from day to day with materials for conversation, it is difficult…

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