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Up Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
- If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
- 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…
- It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at…
- The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to…
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
- Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for…
- The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong…
- Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in…
- Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
- Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
- Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
- The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
- Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
- There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating…
- 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…
- Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
- Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That…
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