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You Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Whatever you have spend less.
- Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
- If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not…
- You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes…
- You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
- Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
- Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
- You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than…
- When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I…
- 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…
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