"Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest……" — Samuel Johnson
"Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast…
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The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing…
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Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone…
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Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile…
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Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that…
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The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on…
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For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where…
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Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
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