"Human life is everywhere a state in which……" — Samuel Johnson
"Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed."
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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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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression;…
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never…
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Great loves too must be endured.
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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be…
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Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of…
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There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or…
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is…
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